University Hospital Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Laufs
Department of Cardiology
Department of Cardiology at University Hospital Leipzig provides care for patients with congenital, acquired and chronic heart diseases. The department is a certified heart center where the entire spectrum of heart diseases is diagnosed and treated by the state-of-the-art diagnostics and therapeutics. The department has the main focus directed towards interventional cardiology, heart failure therapy, cardiac arrhythmia, and cardiovascular disease prevention. The Coronary Care Unit of the department works in close cooperation with the Intensive Care Unit where cardiovascular patients are monitored and treated. The unit offers ECMO and Impella therapy as supportive measures for cardiac insufficiency.
Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. med. Ulrich Laufs, the department treats over 2,800 inpatients every year. The department also has a certified Chest Pain unit which is fully equipped with cutting-edge diagnostics and therapeutics as well as the medical team and nursing staff who are specialized in handling emergencies, It also has a specialized unit for the treatment of arrhythmia in the form of pacemakers and defibrillators implantation. The department offers the full spectrum of implantation therapy, ranging from compartment devices to chamber devices.
The Department of Cardiology at University Hospital Leipzig is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
• Coronary heart diseases
• Valve stenosis
• Left atrium occlusion
• Atrial septal defects
• Arrhythmia
• Heart failure
• Endocarditis
• Muscular dystrophy
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- 1969 Born in Göttingen, 1988 Abitur in Hamburg
- 1988-1994 studied medicine in Bochum, Hamburg, Ann Arbor
- 1988-1994 doctor in the internship and medical clinic III of the University of Cologne
- 1995-1996 Research Associate, Cardiovascular Department, Brigham & Women's Hospital
- 1996-1998 Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- 1998-2000 assistant doctor at the Medical Clinic III of the University of Cologne
- Since 2000 Clinic for Internal Medicine III, Saarland University Clinics
- 2003 Specialist in internal medicine
- 2004 habilitation
- Since 2004 senior physician
- 2005 specialist in cardiology
- 2007 specialist in angiology
- Since 2007 head of the clinical research group "Signal transduction in adaptive and aladaptive cardiac remodeling "(DFG-KFO 196)
- Since 2008 professorship for clinical-experimental medicine at the University of Saarlanders
- Since 2008 head of the project "Prevention of Stroke" common to the European Stroke Network (FP7)
Selected tasks and functions
- Since 1996 German Society for Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research
- Since 2003 member of the working group "National Guideline for Care Heart disease "of the German Medical Association
- Since 2004 spokesman, working group heart and brain of the German society for cardiology and the German stroke society
- Since 2004 full member of the German Medicines Commission Medical profession
- Since 2004 Editorial Board, Clinical Research in Cardiology
- Editorial Board, Basic Research in Cardiology since 2006
Focuses
- Clinical
- coronary artery disease;
- interventional cardiology;
- internalist Intensive care and emergency medicine;
- clinical angiology;
- Heart failure;
- Fat metabolism disorders;
- arterial hypertension;
- cardiovascular Prevention
- Scientific
- Molecular Mechanisms of Atherosclerosis;
- Cardiac hypertrophy and Stroke and its prevention and therapeutic influence
Department of Cardiology
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