Medical Centre Bonn - surgery/vascular surgery
Jörg Korn, M.D.
The field of vascular surgery serves the detection and treatment of diseases, injuries and malformations of arteries and veins. In addition to modern diagnosis methods and conservative medicamentous treatments, all kinds of surgical methods are at our disposal. These include new catheter techniques for vascular dilatation (via balloon catheter), placement of stents (interior vascular supports) and laser methods.
Range of medical services
- Broad diagnosis of arterial and venous diseases
- Conservative treatment of arterial, venous and lymphatic vascular diseases
- Vein surgery, especially surgical treatment of varicosis and ulcers (ulcus cruris = non-healing ulcers of the leg)
- Interventional (= catheter-) treatment of arterial and venous diseases
- Surgical treatment of arterial diseases
- Treatment of aneurysms (pathological dilatation of arteries) via endovascular stent-prostheses (placement and positioning of vascular prostheses via catheter systems)
- Shunt surgery
- Diagnosis and therapy of diabetic foot syndrome
Special medical care focusses
- Interdisciplinary treatment
In order to achieve the best therapy results, most of the complex diseases affecting blood vessels and thus causing consequential damage in many organs, require interdisciplinary cooperation.
The Medical Centre Bonn Friedensplatz offers the best conditions to diagnose thoroughly and treat these diseases in optimal quality due to the connection of the medical specialisations vascular surgery, internal medicine, neurology, dermatology and physical medicine. The interdisciplinary conferences and discussions concerning special cases guarantee that we select methods in view of the greatest benefit and lowest risk for the patient.
Diagnosis and surgery of carotid artery
Sonographic testing of the carotid artery provides information about the probable risk of an apoplectic stroke and also helps to detect the cause of the disease after having suffered an apoplectic stroke. After completing diagnosis it might be advisable to carry out carotid artery surgery in order to diminish the risk of an apoplectic stroke.
Treatment of peripheral disturbed blood flow
After a careful diagnosis there are all kinds of therapy at our disposal
* Infusion treatment with prostaglandins and simultaneous walking training
* Dilatation (= balloon dilatation) of narrow vessel sections
* Surgical reconstruction of arterial vessels (bypass surgery)
Port surgery
By means of port surgery permanent access to the vessels can be established, which is useful for chemotherapy and prostaglandin application. This central venous catheter, the port of which is placed subcutaneously, can be left there even for a longer period of time (months), since it is well protected against infections.
Veneous surgery
We have a broad therapy spectrum at our disposal
· Removal of stem varices (= Babcock surgery)
· Laser coagulation of stem varices
· Removal of lateral varices (rami lateralis) by mini-phlebectomy
· Sclerosis treatment (sclerotisation of varicose veins)
· Laser coagulation of spider veins
Shunt surgery
New insertion and revision of dialysis shunts, implantation of atrial heart catheters and diagnosis of problems in dialysis treatment.
Elimination of aortic aneurysms
Via endovascular elimination of aneurysms large vessel reconstructive surgeries and thus a high surgery complication risk can be avoided, because vessel protheses are implanted via a catheter system into femoral and pelvic arteries. This does not require any extensive surgery.
The broad spectrum of conservative, interventional and surgical treatment methods guarantees a "made to order" therapy for each patient.
Further services:
Vessel check
A health check up connected with a specific apparative diagnosis helps to detect and exclude respectively vessel damage in patients bearing a higher risk due to smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, renal insufficiency and lipometabolism disorders. Thanks to early diagnosis and an adapted therapy of the risk factors, further vessel damage with sometimes drastic consequences, can be delayed or even be avoided.
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