Stralsund: A new treatment method for ischemic heart disease
The cardiologists at Helios Stralsund are expanding their range of services with an innovative procedure for patients with severe heart disease: the so-called coronary sinus (CS) reducer. This new the…
Heart Center Leipzig: Modern robotic surgical technologies
As early as 1998, the world’s first robot-assisted heart valve surgery was performed at the Leipzig Heart Center. 28 years later, a new and improved generation of the da Vinci surgical robot is return…
Helios Cluster in Leipzig deliver outstanding medical results
Helios Hospitals demonstrates outstanding medical quality. The quality figures now published for 2025 show that patients at Helios receive care at the highest level.
Siegburg: Reunion after a rare Ross procedure
An increasing number of patients are benefiting from the Ross procedure, which is offered at the heart center of Helios Hospital Siegburg. In this rare surgical method, the diseased aortic valve is re…
Karlsruhe: First implantation of an extravascular defibrillator
At the Helios Hospital for Cardiac Surgery in Karlsruhe, Senior Physician and Head of Arrhythmia Surgery, Dr. Naser Ghaffari Mehrjerdi, together with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kuschyk, Head of Cardiac Device T…
Karlsruhe: First artificial tricuspid valve implanted via catheter
At the Helios Hospital for Cardiac Surgery in Karlsruhe, the Karlsruhe Heart Team has implanted a so-called Evoque valve for the first time. This artificial valve replaces the tricuspid valve and has…
Helios Krefeld: First robot-assisted bypass surgery within the Helios network
The Niederrhein Heart Center is taking a significant step forward in patient care: Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. med. Diyar Saeed, the first robot-assisted bypass operation within the Helios netwo…
Heart Center Leipzig: Implantation of an innovative artificial heart
At the Heart Center Leipzig, a highly innovative heart support system was implanted in autumn 2025 – only for the third time in Europe. The DuoCor BiVAS supports both the left and right ventricles sim…
Leipzig: Extravascular defibrillator in Brugada syndrome
For the first time, an extravascular defibrillator was successfully implanted at the Heart Center Leipzig in a patient with the rare Brugada syndrome — a genetically determined disorder of the heart’s…
Leipzig: Surgical treatment of congenital heart defects in children
After years of unexplained symptoms, a severe congenital heart defect was diagnosed in the summer of 2022 in Charlotte, who was four years old at the time and urgently required surgery. Through open-h…
Leipzig: Mother and son undergo life-saving heart surgeries
In Germany, approximately 10,000 people are affected by Marfan syndrome. This rare genetic disorder causes a connective tissue disease that affects multiple organ systems. In the heart, excessive dila…
Wuppertal: Surgeons successfully implant aortic arch prosthesi
Vascular and cardiac surgeons at Helios University Hospital Wuppertal (HUKW) have inserted an aortic arch prosthesis in an interdisciplinary operation. It was the first operation of its kind at HUKW a…
