Overview
The main contact persons for our patients are specially trained doctors from the Department of Congenital Heart Defects. The attending physician coordinates the follow-up care, determines clarification steps together with the patient and organizes further treatments and interventions if necessary. The duty doctor of the department for congenital heart defects is available for emergencies. If hospitalization is necessary, our patients are cared for by our medical team.
The frequency of check-ups and the examinations carried out (cardiac ultrasound, stress test, etc.) depend on the type of heart defect and the state of health of the individual patient. Accordingly, the examinations take different lengths of time, usually a few hours. As there can sometimes be some waiting time between the individual examinations, we ask you to take something to read with you. Your doctor will clarify with you which examinations you need.
After the inspection
At the end of each check-up, your doctor will discuss the results of the tests with you, answer your questions and explain the next steps. If you already have questions that you would like to discuss with us before the consultation, it is worth writing them down in advance so that nothing is forgotten.
Further examinations
In addition to the medical consultation and physical examination, further examinations are carried out depending on the type of heart defect. Your doctor will discuss the necessity and frequency of these additional examinations with you. These additional examinations include
- Resting ECG (cardiac waveform)
- Blood test
- Cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography, echo)
- Stress test on the bike or treadmill (ergometry)
- Spiroergometry (stress test with measurement of oxygen uptake via a mask)
- Pacemaker control
- X-ray of the chest
- Long-term ECG (Holter ECG)
- 24-hour blood pressure measurement
- Computed tomography (CT)
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Liver ultrasound
- etc.
