The Vithas Department of Cardiology is recognized as one of the best in Spain and Europe in the field of cardiac surgery, invasive and interventional cardiology. Well-known cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, hemodynamic specialists, and arrhythmologists practice here.
Foreign patients choose Vitas Cardiac Surgery Centers for the treatment of many cardiovascular pathologies using modern technologies.
Vithas Medical Centers offer:
1. Correction of the mitral and aortic valves by minimally invasive endovascular methods. The procedures are performed by leading European cardiac surgeon Dr. Hans-Hoachim Shafers. He is a recognized world leader in the field of heart valve reconstruction. Performed over 1500 surgeries.
2. Complex treatment of heart failure. Clinics have developed therapeutic regimens that include:
surgical minimally invasive interventions;
biotechnology;
methods of cell therapy and tissue engineering.
3. Intrauterine correction of heart defects. Newborn babies are operated on at Vithas Hospital.
4. Immunosorption on the Baxter Therasorb apparatus. It is indicated for patients with ischemic syndrome, dilated cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension. Treatment involves the extracorporeal removal of fibrinogen, C-reactive protein, immunoglobulins from the blood that affect the structural proteins of the muscle. The therapy does not require anesthesia, the session lasts about an hour and a half. The procedure allows to achieve positive dynamics and delay the implantation of an artificial heart. Therasorb treatment in Vithas improves the condition of patients suffering from diseases with an autoimmune component. For example: with multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, retinal vasculitis, retinal macular degeneration.