Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery - University Hospital Bonn
University Hospital Bonn
Bonn, Germany
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Department id #
289937
Prof. Dr. med. Boulos Asfour
Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Specialized in: pediatric cardiac surgery About the Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at University Hospital Bonn
The Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital Bonn offers the full range of surgical treatment of congenital and acquired heart defects. The department has various therapeutic options in order to ensure the optimal medical care for patients of different age groups, ranging from premature babies, newborns, young children, adolescents to adults with congenital heart defects. Many heart diseases can be detected even in the womb, therefore, the department holds joint consultations for future parents with the specialists in Prenatal Medicine and Pediatric Cardiology. The clinical practice is based on an interdisciplinary collaboration.
The department is headed by Prof. Dr. med. Boulos Asfour. The specialist made a significant contribution to the development of minimally invasive techniques and treatment methods for congenital and acquired heart defects using a combination of interventional procedures and open surgery (hybrid interventions).
The department has a special competence in the surgery for complex heart defects in very small premature and newborn children suffering from multiple developmental defects. For example, the department's surgeons skillfully perform the arterial switch operations, Sano modification of the Norwood procedure or aortic valve reconstruction after prenatal interventions. Special attention is paid to the use of ECMO in newborns. With appropriate indications, the doctors use the most sparing surgical techniques in order to ensure the fastest recovery of young patients after the surgery, minimal pain and risks. After the heart surgery, the child is transferred to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, where the specially trained team of pediatric cardiologists, anesthesiologists, cardiac surgeons and nurses provide all the necessary therapeutic measures.
The service range of the department includes:
- Septal defect surgery
- Atrial septal defect
- Ventricular septal defect
- Atrioventricular septal defect
- Bypass grafting
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Aortopulmonary window
- Surgery for right heart diseases
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Pulmonary valve stenosis
- Pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect
- Double outlet right ventricle
- Surgery for left heart diseases
- Aortic stenosis and insufficiency
- Mitral stenosis and insufficiency
- Surgery for сomplicated heart diseases
- Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries with ventricular septal defect and left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (ccTGA, L-TGA)
- Persistent truncus arteriosus
- Left coronary artery lesions from the pulmonary artery (anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery, Bland-White-Garland syndrome)
- Single ventricle heart surgery
- Right-sided modified Blalock-Taussig shunt
- Sano modification of the Norwood procedure
- Norwood operation "rapid stage"
- Glenn procedure
- Fontan procedure
- Surgical treatment of vascular anomalies
- Aortic isthmus stenosis (coarctation)
- Anomalous pulmonary venous connection (partial and total anomalous pulmonary venous return)
- Interrupted aortic arch
- Double aortic arch
- Special surgical techniques
- Reconstructive interventions with valve preservation
- Cone reconstruction in Ebstein's anomaly
- Aortic valve reconstruction using the patient's own pericardial tissue (modified Ozaki procedure)
- Hybrid interventions
- Minimally invasive surgeries
- Implantation of pacemakers and defibrillators, including revision interventions
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in newborns
- Aortopexy
- All surgical procedures in adult patients with congenital heart defects, including the acquired heart defects in childhood
- Other medical services
Curriculum vitae
Higher Education, Postgraduate Training and Professional Career
- Medical studies at the Justus Liebig University Giessen.
- Internship in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University Hospital Muenster.
- 1993 Research Fellow, Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
- 1996 Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1998 Senior Physician in the Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital Muenster.
- 2002 Beginning of work in the Department of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Asklepios Children's Hospital Sankt Augustin.
- Since 2006 Head Physician of the Department of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Asklepios Children's Hospital Sankt Augustin.
- October 2019 Headed the newly founded Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital Bonn.
Research Interests
- Early repair of congenital heart defects.
- Organ growth stimulation in hypoplasia.
- Quality management of congenital heart disease treatment.
- Single ventricle defect repair.
Teaching Activities
- Congenital heart defects, Semmelweis University.
- Congenital heart defects, University of Duisburg-Essen.
- Congenital heart defects, University of Muenster.
Memberships in Medical Professional Societies
- German Cardiac Society.
- German Society for Pediatric Cardiology.
- German Society for Thoracic Surgery.
- German Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Photo of the doctor: (c) Universitätsklinikum Bonn
