The basic idea of the German Heart Center as Europe's first ‘one-organ clinic’ has served as a model in many ways. The high degree of specialisation and differentiation in modern medicine was already foreseen when it was founded 50 years ago.
The German Heart Center has achieved many medical successes over the last five decades: These include the first successful heart transplant in Germany in 1981, while keyhole surgery and interventional heart valve therapy are among the centre's pioneering achievements. A global team led by the Heart Center has succeeded in identifying almost all heart attack genes. The DigiMed Bayern project has made a significant contribution to identifying and treating people at high risk of a heart attack. With numerous clinical studies, the heart center has been able to shape the heart attack guidelines around the world, which doctors use as a guide when treating a heart attack.
The European Paediatric Heart Center Munich (ekhz) was founded in 2023 and is the largest paediatric heart surgery centre in Germany in terms of surgical numbers. The Clinic for Congenital Heart Defects and Paediatric Cardiology at the German Heart Center is one of the largest in Europe. Minister President Dr Markus Söder praised the Heart Center as an international flagship with the world's only centre for heart surgery with catheters in premature babies.
‘With the future connection of the Heart Center with the TU Klinikum rechts der Isar, we are also sending a strong signal and increasing the appeal of all of them,’ said Söder. The Bavarian state government had already given the green light for a merger of the German Heart Center (DHM) with the Klinikum rechts der Isar (MRI) in February. The merger to form the Technical University of Munich Hospital (TUM Hospital) is intended to strengthen cutting-edge medicine in Munich.
This press release is an abridged version of the press release of the German Heart Center Munich.
To the original press release: press release German Heart Center Munich (in German only)
