Marc Ulrich Becher

The focus of our clinic is on comprehensive treatment of patients with acute and chronic cardiovascular diseases. Thanks to modern diagnostic techniques, cardiology can precisely identify the causes of various heart conditions and common cardiac symptoms, such as shortness of breath, chest pain, or palpitations. At Städtisches Klinikum Solingen, we have excellent conditions to treat these issues effectively. Patients can trust that they will receive professional and empathetic care at our Solingen Cardiology Clinic around the clock.

The two main drivers of heart disease, high blood pressure and LDL cholesterol, as well as diabetes, can be effectively and safely treated with medication. Circulatory disorders, rhythm disturbances, and heart valve diseases can now be treated in a much more tolerable manner.

Heart diseases manifest in three areas: blood flow to the heart muscle through the coronary arteries, heart rhythm, and heart strength and valve function. With modern diagnostic techniques, cardiology can pinpoint the causes of various heart diseases and common cardiac symptoms such as shortness of breath, chest pain, or palpitations.

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services:

Non-invasive Diagnostics:

• ECG, Holter ECG, stress ECG (ergometry)
• 24-hour blood pressure monitoring, tilt table test
• Heart ultrasound (echocardiography) including duplex/color Doppler, 3D/4D echo, stress echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, contrast-enhanced echocardiography
• Cardiac MRI and CT

Invasive Diagnostics and Therapy:

• 2 digital flat-panel left heart catheter labs with approx. 3,000–4,000 diagnostic and therapeutic procedures per year
• Coronary angiographies, intravascular pressure measurements to assess the hemodynamic relevance of coronary stenosis, PTCA, stent implantation (PCI), drug-eluting balloon (DEB), lesion preparation in calcified stenoses using intravascular lithotripsy (shockwave lithotripsy), rotablation
• Intravascular imaging with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) & optical coherence tomography (OCT)
• Recanalization of chronically occluded coronary arteries (CTO recanalization)
• 24-hour catheter readiness for acute heart attacks/coronary syndromes
• Outpatient heart catheter diagnostics
• Catheter-based aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in collaboration with nearby university hospitals
• Structural catheter-based procedures for AV valves (mitral and tricuspid valves)
• PFO and left atrial appendage closure
• Implantations (about 75 procedures per year) and management/monitoring