The Cardiac Surgery Department is a global centre of reference for many cases of diseases. The visit of foreign doctors of various related specialties in order to exchange views and learn various techniques that take place in the Hospital is a daily occurrence. St. Luke's Hospital is well equipped in terms of cardiology and cardiac surgery specialties. The material and technical equipment of the department is the most modern and specialised and is constantly renewed, according to the current developments and requirements of science.
The Cardiac Surgery Department of St. Luke's Hospital addresses to the patients who require surgical treatment of a heart disease. To date, more than 20.000 patients have been operated on in the Cardiac Surgery Department.
The Cardiac Surgery Department treats all heart diseases that require surgical treatment, either with open heart surgery, or with endoscopic cardiac surgery, robotic or non-assisted.
The Hospital's heart operating rooms are equipped with modern equipment and staffed with experienced medical and nursing staff. The Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit is equipped with the most complete patient support and monitoring machines and operates on the basis of modern medical protocols of postoperative treatment.
The department's cardiac surgeons apply the most innovative methods in heart surgery, such as minimally invasive robotically assisted cardiac surgery. The department specialises in Endoscopic Cardiac Surgery and specifically in the following operations:
The department carries out extensive research with presentations, publications and announcements in major Greek and European conferences. On a regular basis, cases, complex procedures (angioplasty, valve replacements or cardiac surgery) are organized and live-streamed at major conferences in Greece and abroad. Also, the department is an educational centre of reference in techniques, such as Rotablation, total occlusions and TAVI, and accepts cardiac surgeons from all over Europe, who are trained at the Institute of Cardiac Surgery of the Hospital, in endoscopic cardiac surgery.
The department's cardiac surgeons are part of an integrated, interdisciplinary team of physicians and healthcare professionals who provide individualised care. The interdisciplinary approach to care means that every patient with cardiovascular disease who visits the Hospital receives simultaneously the opinion of many doctors and other specialists in a short period of time and in order to treat his cardiological problem more efficiently.
"At St. Luke's Hospital, our team performs operations that cover the entire range of modern cardiac surgery. Thanks to the specialisation in high-level university centres (Geneva Hospital) and the experience of performing numerous cardiac surgery procedures, both in Switzerland and France as well as in Greece, we promise the excellent outcome of the most difficult and complex operations. Aiming at a decent and good doctor-patient relationship, we guarantee the continuity in the success of our work."
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