Dr. Hans Joachim Schäfers
Dr. Hans Joachim Schäfers
Dr. H.J. Schäfers is a cardiac surgeon at the Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud Madrid and Hospital Universitario La Luz, an expert in aortic repair and Ross surgery.
Dr. Hans Joachim Schäfers has been head of the Cardiac Surgery Department at the University Hospital of Homburg, in Germany, and is the first surgeon to have standardized aortic valve repair techniques. He actively participates in the development of European guidelines on the treatment of aortic valve disease and aortic aneurysms, and has extended its use by training surgeons from around the world. In addition, he is also an expert in the Ross technique, which consists of replacing the aortic valve with the pulmonary valve in patients in whom this valve cannot be repaired, thus avoiding the need to implant a prosthesis.
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Dr. Schäfers has extensive experience in the treatment of cardiac diseases. He has worked as a cardiac surgeon at the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Medical School of Hannover, Germany, after which he was appointed interim director of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the University Hospitals of Saarland Homburg, also in Germany. He currently combines his work as a surgeon at Quirónsalud Madrid with that of director of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the University Hospitals of Saarland, Homburg, Germany.
Dr. Schäfers is one of the world's leading experts in aortic valve repair, with one of the largest series of patients treated worldwide. Valve repair allows for the correction of damaged tissue defects while preserving the patient's valve. This procedure avoids complications resulting from implanting a prosthetic material in the patient (mechanical valve), and allows the patient to avoid lifelong anticoagulant treatment that would be necessary if the patient underwent valve replacement.
Dr. Schafërs is a member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Valve Society, German Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, German Society of Thoracic Surgery, German Society of Cardiology, German Society of Surgery, and German Transplant Society.
Dr. Schäfers is the author of four books on cardiac surgery and has published more than 480 scientific articles on the treatment of cardiovascular conditions.
He is Professor of Surgery at Saarland University in Germany and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Tel Aviv in Israel and Malaga in Spain.
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