What does a cardiac surgeon do?

A cardiac surgeon is a specialist who operates on the heart, lungs and other thoracic (chest) organs and they also diagnose and treat diseases of these organs.

What are the typical symptoms of heart diseases?

The typicals symptoms include Chest pain, chest tightness, chest pressure, chest discomfort Shortness of breath associated with Pain, numbness, weakness or coldness in the legs or arms.

Which tests/ investigations are generally required by Cardiac surgeons?

Investigations like blood reports, Chest x ray, Electrocardiogram, Pulmonary function test, Carotid Dopping, Vein mapping, Trans-esphogeal echocardiogram, Heart Catheterization, and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging would be required.

What is the difference between a Cardiac Surgeon and a Cardiologist?

Cardiologist perform procedures in cath lab like Balloon angioplasty, Coronary and left ventricular digital angiography, Right and left heart catheterization, Rotational artherectomy, Stent implantation etc whereas a Cardiac surgeon perform surgery of the heart and chest.

How long is the stay in hospital for a heart surgery?

Stay in the hospital is usually for 7 – 10 days

Prof. Dr. med. Ellen Hoffman, Cardiac Surgeon in Munich, Germany - Appointment

About Prof. Dr. med. Ellen Hoffman

Prof. Dr. med. Ellen Hoffman is an experienced Cardiac surgeon with over +20 years of working in the field of treating heart and circulatory diseases.
She holds the Fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology. She has been the President of the Congress on Interventional Cardiovascular Therapy (2012) of the German Society for Cardiology.
During 1978--85, Dr.Hoffman studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and also at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. She completed her doctoral thesis from the Heidelberg University. She trained at LMU and also earned her teaching qualification.
Dr.Hoffman is a reputed interventional cardiologist with focus on catheter ablation of arrhythmias. She also treats heart failure, valvular heart disease, cardiovascular diseases and heart muscle disease among a host of other treatments.
She has to her credit several scholarly articles of popular journals. She is the reviewer for the International Editorial Board of the European Heart Journal, Circulation, AEP, JACC, JACC EP, JICE and Europace. She is an editorial board member of Circulation EP and Europace.

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