University Hospital Ulm
Ulm, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rottbauer
Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pulmonology (Internal medicine II)
The Department of internal medicine II at the university hospital of Ulm focuses on Cardiology, Angiology, Pulmonology, Internal Emergency, and Intensive Care Medicine, and Sports and Rehabilitation Medicine.
The division of Cardiology, Angiology and Internal Intensive Care at the University Hospital Ulm offers counseling, diagnostics, and treatment in cardiovascular diseases. The department also specializes in the valvular diseases of the heart, arrhythmias, coronary artery disease, congestive cardiac failure and congenital heart defects.
The department ranks among the leaders in the minimally invasive treatment of heart valve defects in Germany. The catheter techniques are extensively used in aortic valve replacement and they are the standard method for progressive aortic stenosis treatment (transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)).
The department of internal medicine II puts great efforts in constant search of new progressive treatment methods. The world's first cryoballoon ablation (to treat atrial fibrillation) was performed by the doctors of the cardiological department at the university hospital of Ulm.
The division of pulmonology covers the entire spectrum of pulmonary medicine and treat patients with pneumonia, asthma, COPD, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, and sleep apnea syndrome.
The pulmonological division also has great experience and clinical expertise in the treatment of lung cancer.
The Department of Cardiology, Angiology, and Pulmonology at the university hospital of Ulm focuses on the treatment of following medical conditions:
- Cardiology
- Heart valve diseases
- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
- Mitraclip implantation in mitral valve pathology
- Electrophysiology
- Heart rhythm disorders
- Pacemakers
- Coronary artery diseases
- Cardiac muscle weakness
- Congenital heart defects
- Arterial hypertension
- Vascular diseases
- Peripheral arterial disease
- Acute arterial occlusions
- Carotid artery diseases
- Venous thrombosis
- Pulmonology
- Pneumonia
- Asthma
- COPD
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Interstitial lung disease
- Sleep apnea syndrome
- 1987 - 1989 Medical School, University of Regensburg.
- 1989 - 1994 Medical School, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.
- 1992 - 1993 Medical School, Columbia University, New York, USA.
- 1994 Doctoral thesis defense, Cardiology, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.
- 1994 - 1997 Resident and Research Fellow, Cardiology, University of Heidelberg.
- 1997 - 1998 Resident and Research Fellow, Cardiology, University of Lübeck.
- 1998 - 2002 Postdoctoral Scientist, Harvard Medical School, MGH, CVRC (Prof. Dr. med. Fishman).
- 2002 - 2008 Head, Molecular Genetics, University of Heidelberg.
- 2004 - 2006 Board Certification in Internal Medicine and Cardiology.
- 2004 Attending Physician, Department of Cardiology, University of Heidelberg.
- 2008 Vice-Chair, Department of Cardiology, University of Heidelberg.
- Since 2010, Head of the Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Internal Intensive Care at the University Hospital Ulm.
Special Achievements and Awards
- 1998 - 2000 Research grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (RO2173/1).
- 2000 - 2002 Trainings grant by the American Heart Association.
- 2003 Oskar Lapp Prize by the German Cardiac Society.
- 2003 - 2005 Hengstberger Research Grant by the German Cardiac Society
Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pulmonology (Internal medicine II)
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