Frankfurt University Hospital- Department of General and Visceral Surgery

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Frankfurt University Hospital

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Wolf O. Bechstein

Department of General and Visceral Surgery

Description Curriculum vitae

The Department of General and Visceral Surgery works in cooperation with university's colorectal cancer center, pancreatic cancer center, stomach cancer center, and liver cancer center embedded in the University Center for Tumor Diseases (UCT) so that it can offer the best possible interdisciplinary, individualized and evidence-based therapy, utilizing all diagnostic and therapeutic options in interdisciplinary dialogue. Another treatment focus is liver and liver metastasis surgery as well as liver transplantation including living liver donation. For this purpose, there is close cooperation with the Department of Internal Medicine I and the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, organized in the Interdisciplinary Liver Center. The kidney transplantation takes place in close cooperation with the Department of Nephrology where the live kidney donation is preferably carried out laparoscopically in well-equipped rooms even in the ABO-incompatible setting. Other treatment focuses include esophageal and gastric surgery as well as surgery of the endocrine organs (thyroid, parathyroid, adrenals, neuroendocrine liver metastases), coloproctology and hernia surgery. Complex surgical problems with often long illness stories are of special concern to the department. According to the Focus magazine, the department ranks among the top German departments specializing in bowel cancer treatment and it is also certified by the German Cancer Society for its outstanding results in the treatment of bowel, pancreatic, stomach and liver cancers.

The main focus of the Department of General and Visceral Surgery is on the following treatments:

Surgical treatment of cancers of the esophagus, stomach, liver, pancreas, rectum, thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal gland as well as sarcomas of the abdomen.
Visceral surgery
Diseases of the organs of the digestive tract.
Minimally invasive surgeries
Removal using a keyhole technique (cecum, gall bladder, live kidney donation, liver, stomach, large intestine, pancreas tail, spleen, etc.)
Liver transplantation
Kidney transplantation
Kidney living donation
Pancreas grafting
Surgery of endocrine organs

Prof. Dr. med. Wolf Bechstein is a German surgeon. His clinical focuses include immunosuppression after organ transplantation, treatment of chronic transplant rejection, prevention of hemorrhages during liver transplantation and surgical treatment of neuroendocrine tumors of the gastrointestinal tract.
The doctor received his medical education at the Hannover Medical School (1977 - 1983) and at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London (1980 - 1981; a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service).
On October 28, 1983, he passed State Medical Examination (Examination Commission of Lower Saxony)
On November 10 of the same year, he was admitted to medical practice (Medical Association of Lower Saxony).
In 1984, he defended his doctoral thesis on the subject: "Hemorrhage due to the knee joint injury in severe type of hemophilia A" (1979 - 1982 hemophilia research).
In January 1984, Wolf Bechstein began his professional career in the Department of Anesthesiology at the Hannover Medical School.
Only a year later, in 1985, he moved to the Department of Abdominal and Transplant Surgery at the Hannover Medical School.
In August 1988, Bechstein became a doctor in the Department of Surgery at the Charite University Hospital Berlin (now the Department of General and Transplant Surgery), Campus Virchow.
Sometime later, he simultaneously worked at the Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
In 1990, Prof. Bechstein went to the University of Wisconsin in the United States for one year (German Research Foundation Scholarship).
In April 1992 he held the position of the Senior Physician, and in November of the same year, he became a Surgeon of the Berlin Medical Association.
In 1993, he held the position of Senior Physician. One year later he had his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin.
Since 1998, he has worked as Senior Physician (his activities were mostly focused on abdominal surgery).
On September 4, 2000, he was appointed as Head of the Department of Surgery at the Bochum-Langendreer Clinic (Knappschaftskrankenhauses Bochum-Langendreer).
On November 14, 2000, Wolf Bechstein was appointed as Professor of the Faculty of Medicine at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Since August 1, 2002, he has been holding the position of the Chief Physician in the Department of General and Abdominal Surgery at the University Hospital Frankfurt am Main.