The Leading Cardiology Clinic in Zurich

First-Class Heart Medicine in a Relaxed Environment

Switzerland’s first outpatient clinic for cardiac interventions (founded in 2015) offers a relaxed and familiar environment where you can feel comfortable and well-cared for.

The examination and treatment rooms are equipped with the very latest medical technology and our highly qualified team offers first-class state-of-the-art care.

The clinic focuses on providing you with the quickest and most comfortable way to return to normal daily life.

The treatment methods are based on minimally invasive techniques (catheter based interventions), making them easier on your body than conventional cardiac surgery.

They are typically performed using a local anesthetic. Your recovery time will be much faster and you will be able to leave the clinic on the same day.

Innovative prevention and rehabilitation programs complete our holistic approach to patient care.

Here at this speciality clinic will benefit from the optimum conditions for the very best conditions for comprehensive care and convenient treatment of cardiovascular disease. The doctors are leaders in their respective fields and they operate using the latest medical equipment.

Specialities

Treatments include catheter-based interventions to heart and vessel diseases.

This includes coronary and peripheral angiograms, angioplasties, stent implantation, heart rhythm interventions with device (pacemaker, ICD, CRT) implantation and ablation therapy of arrythmias, heart shunt closure procedures and heart valve interventions.

Prevention

High blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, elevated blood lipids, a genetic predisposition or stress can increase the probability of developing coronary artery disease. The clinic helps to identify your personal risk factors to lay the foundations for a healthy future without heart disease.

Healthy Heart Yoga

The clinic is Switzerland’s only clinic to offer healthy heart yoga as a relaxation training program specially designed for heart patients. These special exercises aim to expand the ribcage and the area around the heart to make it easier to breathe deeply. These breathing techniques can help relax the vegetative nervous system and put the mind at ease.

Diagnosis

During the initial consultation it is determined which tests you need. The results are discussed with the patient in detail and the next steps are planned. Depending on the findings, treatment can begin straight away.

Diagnosis Techniques

• Cardiac catherterisation

• Electrophysiologic study (EP)

• Echocardiography (all types)

• Physical and pharmacologic stress tests

• Vessel ultrasound (Doppler sonography)

• Peripheral catheterisation

Treatments Performed:

• Balloon catheter

• Stents

• Patent foramen ovale (PFO)

• Shunt closure

• Atrial appendage occlusion

• Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)

• Mitral valve reconstruction using the mitraClip procedure

• Pacemaker implant

• Defibrillator implantation (ICD)

• Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)

• Catheter ablation

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