Helios Hospital Krefeld

• General and Abdominal Surgery Department
• Cancer Center
• Heart Surgery Department

Helios Krefeld Clinic is one out of 112 medical centers belonged to Helios Hospital Group, the largest medical network in Europe.

Helios Krefeld Clinic was established in 1848. In 2014 the hospital was completely renovated.

The hospital is located in Krefeld, a 20 km away from Dusseldorf. The distance to the International Airport of Dusseldorf is 18 km.

• Leading doctors of Germany and Europe

Helios Krefeld Professors are the presidents of medical societies of Germany and Europe. A lot of them head international ratings. Doctors and nurses regularly improve skills, interchange the experience with international colleagues.

• Technical equipment

Helios Krefeld is one of the 1st medical facilities in Germany, where the hybrid operating theatre functions. Here doctors perform surgeries laparoscopically — through the small incisions, endoscopically — through the natural openings or punctures in the skin. The intervention is processed under MRI or CT control. After such procedures, a patient recovers faster than after open surgery.

Hybrid operating theatre

• Comfortable stay

Special attention is paid to the comfort — all the rooms are up-to-date designed with all conveniences. The doctors’ appointments are arranged in such a way to avoid queues for patients.

In top German hospitals rating 2015-2017 according to Forbes version

Helios Krefeld is included in the best hospitals rating according to such criteria as accessibility of the required equipment, doctors’ qualification, treatment access, and patients’ reviews.

Certified Cancer Center

Helios Krefeld Cancer Center is certified by the German Society for Oncology (DKG). The most innovative therapies are applied; doctors have over 10 years of experience in oncological diseases treatment.

General and Abdominal Surgery Department

Doctors of the Department specialize in the surgical treatment of abdominal cavity, endocrine system pathologies, and obstetrics.

What is minimally invasive surgery?

Minimally invasive surgeries are carried out through the 5-10 mm incisions. Doctors use special instruments and a mini camera to remove the tumor, cysts or polyps. The medical team controls the surgery process on the monitor. It allows a doctor to operate with high accuracy without damaging the healthy organs.

Among the advantages of the method are:

• boosted injury recovery
• minimal painful sensation after the surgery
• an absence of big scars
• the admission term is shorter than after traditional intervention.

Minimally invasive surgery training

Oncological surgery

Doctors specialize in stomach, colon, liver, pancreas, and esophagus cancers treatment. Surgical tumor removal is combined with chemo- and radiation therapies.

The treatment plan is developed individually for each patient, doctors discuss the advanced cases during the consilliums. Oncologists, radiologists, chemotherapists, hematologists and others meet together to consider the patient’s case. It allows choosing the most effective and safe treatment plan.

Specialists of the Department apply a minimally invasive surgical method to treat such diseases:

• esophageal cancer
• a stomach tumor
• duodenal cancer
• small-celled intestinal cancer
• a tumor of the colon or rectum
• pancreas cancer
• metastases in the liver.

Doctors of the Center specialize in the therapy of breast, colon, prostate, head and neck cancers.

Oncologists use such methods as:

• Chemotherapy — cancer treatment with drugs. Doctors apply special “cold cap” to avoid hair loss during the treatment.
• Targeted therapy — application of the drugs which directly influence a particular type of malignant cells. Targeted therapy causes much fewer side effects than standard chemotherapy.
• Immunotherapy is a treatment with medicines that activate own patient’s immune system to kill cancer cells.
• Combined chemotherapy is a simultaneous cycle of chemo- and radiotherapies. This method is more effective for cancer treatment than chemo- and radiation treatments separately.

A patient in a "cold cap"

Doctors of the Department specialize in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The surgeries are conducted in the hybrid operating theatres, where all the necessary equipment for open and minimally invasive operations is available.

TAVI — transcatheter aortic valve implantation without big skin incisions

Cardiac surgeons have been performed TAVI since 2010. The procedure is carried out through a fine tube (catheter), which is inserted in the femoral or carpal arteries. The implant is placed at the fine tube edge. Doctors control the intervention process using X-ray apparatus.

The procedure is less traumatic in comparison with the open surgery. A patient is discharged from the hospital in 1-3 days after TAVI.

Valve replacement applying Japanese Dr. Ozaki’s method

It is a state-of-the-art operation during which doctors place biological valve made of patient’s pericardial sac.

The procedure is conducted through a small incision between ribs in most of the cases.

The biological valve replants better than mechanic one, and a patient does not need to take the anti-clotting medicines for a lifetime.

1-bed hospital room

Hospitals of the Helios Network in other cities:

• Helios Berlin-Buch in Berlin
• Helios Park Hospital in Leipzig