Department of General and Abdominal Surgery, Hernia Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Endocrine Surgery and Bariatric Surgery - University Hospital Halle (Saale)
University Hospital Halle (Saale)
Halle, Germany
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Department id #
229523
Prof. Dr. med. Jörg Kleeff
Department of General and Abdominal Surgery, Hernia Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Endocrine Surgery and Bariatric Surgery
Specialized in: general and abdominal surgery, hernia surgery, vascular surgery, endocrine surgery, bariatric surgery About the Department of General and Abdominal Surgery, Hernia Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Endocrine Surgery and Bariatric Surgery at University Hospital Halle (Saale)
The Department of General and Abdominal Surgery, Hernia Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Endocrine Surgery and Bariatric Surgery at the University Hospital Halle (Saale) offers a full range of surgical treatments in its areas of specialization at the highest level of university medicine. The department operates on patients with abdominal cancers, with a special focus on stomach, esophageal, colon, pancreatic, and liver cancers, inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases, hernias, and vascular diseases, as well as pathologies of the thyroid gland, parathyroid glands, adrenal glands, and neuroendocrine tumors. The department is certified in accordance with the standards of the German Cancer Society (DKG) for its high success rates in the surgical treatment of oncological diseases and has also been awarded the DGH Siegel certificate by the German Hernia Society. The department presents the direction of bariatric surgery, whose specialists excel in the treatment of morbid obesity with procedures such as gastric bypass, gastric banding, sleeve gastroplasty, and biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch. In their clinical practice, the department's surgeons mainly use modern minimally traumatic surgical techniques. The department performs minimally invasive, robotic (da Vinci Si® and Xi® systems), and endovascular surgery. It is important to the specialists at the medical facility to provide each patient with the best therapeutic results with a high degree of safety. The Head Physician of the department is Prof. Dr. med. Jörg Kleeff.
The medical team of the department strives to keep up with the innovations in the world of surgery, so the most modern operations are performed here, which allow to provide effective medical care in complex clinical cases. One of such operations is cytoreductive surgery in combination with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). The method is used to treat peritoneal carcinomatosis, which is a complication of colon cancer, stomach cancer, appendiceal cancer, as well as pseudomyxoma or peritoneal mesothelioma. Surgical treatment consists of two stages: the doctors of the department first perform surgical resection of all visible tumor foci on the peritoneum, and then the HIPEC procedure is performed, during which the abdominal cavity is rinsed with a solution of chemotherapy drugs heated to high temperatures (42℃ and above) for 60-90 minutes. The effect of highly concentrated cytostatics in combination with the hyperthermia effect allows for maximum destruction of cancer cells in the abdominal cavity, which is impossible with classical systemic chemotherapy. Thus, HIPEC ensures the destruction of microscopic tumor foci remaining after resection, which carry a high risk of cancer recurrence. Cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC is an innovative treatment method whose effectiveness is internationally recognized. This treatment requires state-of-the-art equipment and high professional skills of surgeons, therefore it is performed only in the world's best hospitals. It should be noted that the surgeons of the department regularly practice the treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis with the HIPEC method and demonstrate excellent results in this area.
The department also offers treatment with pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC), a procedure in which chemotherapy drugs are administered into the abdominal cavity in the form of an aerosol under pressure. Indications for PIPAC include peritoneal carcinomatosis due to colorectal, gastric or appendiceal cancers, pseudomyxoma, and peritoneal mesothelioma. Unlike HIPEC, pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy is performed laparoscopically, without the stage of tumor resection surgery. PIPAC can be used as a stand-alone method, in combination with systemic chemotherapy, and as a neoadjuvant treatment prior to cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC. Pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy is performed under general anesthesia and lasts approximately one hour. PIPAC is highly effective, well tolerated, and has virtually no side effects. In addition, PIPAC can be used repeatedly.
The department's team of surgeons is deservedly proud of its unique experience in robotic surgery. Minimally invasive surgery is successfully performed here using the advanced da Vinci Si® and Xi® robotic systems, which allow surgeons to operate on abdominal organs with minimal trauma and high precision; the robotic equipment features the latest generation of three-dimensional optics. When performing surgery, the surgeon controls and commands the robotic system from a control console. The surgeon can view the surgical field in multiple zooms, and the manipulator arms of the da Vinci robot with built-in miniature instruments perform the most complex surgical maneuvers in hard-to-reach areas without damaging nerve endings and blood vessels. The effectiveness of da Vinci operations is comparable to the results of classic open operations, but the robot offers a number of advantages such as minimal blood loss, barely noticeable scars, a short postoperative recovery period, and a low risk of postoperative complications. The department's physicians are highly skilled in robotic surgery for procedures involving the stomach, esophagus, intestines, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, and bile ducts.
An important area of clinical activity of the department is hernia repair surgery. In this field, the medical facility has been awarded the DGH Siegel quality certificate by the German Hernia Society. The department specializes in inguinal and umbilical hernia repair surgery. In most cases, the department's surgeons prefer minimally invasive techniques with the placement of mesh implants. For example, transabdominal preperitoneal hernioplasty (TAPP) or total extraperitoneal hernioplasty (TEP) are successfully performed here to treat inguinal hernias, and intraperitoneal onlay mesh (IPOM) is used to repair umbilical hernias. In complex clinical cases, specialists resort to open surgery such as Lichtenstein or Shouldice hernioplasty procedures.
The medical services provided by the department include the following:
- General and abdominal surgery
- Surgery for oncological diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
- Surgery for colon cancer
- Surgery for stomach cancer
- Surgery for esophageal cancer
- Surgery for pancreatic cancer
- Surgery for peritoneal carcinomatosis: innovative HIPEC and PIPAC methods
- Surgery for hepatocellular carcinoma
- Surgery for liver metastases
- Surgery for gallbladder and bile duct cancer
- Surgery for chronic inflammatory bowel disease
- Surgery for gastroesophageal reflux disease, including in combination with diaphragmatic hernia and displacement of the stomach into the chest
- Surgery for oncological diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
- Hernia surgery
- Inguinal hernia repairs: transabdominal preperitoneal hernia repair (TAPP), totally extraperitoneal hernia repair (TEP), and Lichtenstein or Shouldice hernia repair
- Umbilical hernia repairs: intraperitoneal onlay mesh (IPOM)
- Vascular surgery
- Open surgery and endovascular stenting for aneurysms, aortic dissection, and abdominal aortic branch occlusion
- Open surgery and endovascular stenting for carotid artery stenosis (stroke prevention)
- Surgery for stenosis and occlusion of the blood vessels in the lower extremity due to peripheral arterial occlusive disease
- Dialysis access formation, including revision procedures
- Surgery for dialysis fistulas, defects after continuous use of catheters, etc.
- Surgery for congenital arteriovenous malformations
- Surgery for for varicose veins and thrombosis
- Endocrine surgery
- Surgery for benign thyroid diseases
- Surgery for diffuse and nodular goiter
- Surgery for thyrotoxicosis
- Surgery for cold thyroid nodules
- Surgery for malignant thyroid diseases
- Surgery for thyroid cancer
- Surgery for adrenal diseases
- Surgery for adrenal hyperfunction
- Surgery for adrenal hyperplasia
- Surgery for rare malignant tumors of the adrenal glands
- Surgery for Cushing's syndrome
- Surgery for hyperaldosteronism
- Surgery for parathyroid diseases
- Surgery for hyperparathyroidism in parathyroid adenoma
- Surgery for rare malignant tumors of the parathyroid glands
- Surgery for neuroendocrine tumors
- Surgery for benign thyroid diseases
- Bariatric surgery
- Gastric bypass
- Gastric banding
- Sleeve gastrectomy
- Biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch
- Other surgical options
The department performs operations using the following surgical techniques:
- Minimally invasive surgical techniques
- Endoscopic techniques
- Endovascular techniques
- Robotic techniques (da Vinci Si® and Xi® systems)
- Other surgical techniques
Curriculum vitae
Higher Education
- 1990 - 1992 Medical studies, Faculty of Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen.
- 1992 - 1996 Medical studies, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
- 1997 Thesis defense, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Subject: "Diagnostic methods and epidemiology of HTLV-I and II viruses in Germany".
- 2005 Habilitation, Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg. Subject: "Mechanisms of pancreatic carcinoma aggressiveness at the molecular level – TGF-b signaling pathway".
- 2010 Extraordinary Professorship, Technical University of Munich.
Internships Abroad
- 1994 University of Washington, Murray Korc Laboratory, Seattle, USA.
- 1995 Harvard University, Boston, USA.
- 1996 Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland.
- 1996 University of Toronto, Canada.
Qualifications
- Board certification in General, Abdominal and Special Abdominal Surgery.
- 2011 Master of Healthcare Business Administration (MHBA), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Professional Career
- 1999 - 2005 Assistant Physician, Department of Abdominal Surgery and Transplant Surgery, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland, and Department of General and Abdominal Surgery and Traumatology, University Hospital Heidelberg.
- 2005 - 2008 Senior Physician, Department of General and Abdominal Surgery and Traumatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, as well as the Department of Surgery at the University Hospital Rechts der Isar Munich.
- 2009 - 2015 Managing Senior Physician, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Rechts der Isar Munich.
- 2013 - 2014 Acting Head of the Department of Surgery, University Hospital Rechts der Isar Munich.
- 2015 - 2016 Consultant for Pancreatohepatobiliary and General Surgery, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals, Liverpool, UK.
- 2015 - 2020 Honorary Professorship, Department of Molecular and Clinical Oncology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK.
- Since 2017 Professorship for Abdominal Surgery and Head Physician, Department of General and Abdominal Surgery, Hernia Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Endocrine Surgery and Bariatric Surgery, University Hospital Halle (Saale).
- Since 2017 Head Physician, Department of General, Abdominal and Vascular Surgery, Bergmannstrost Hospital in Halle.
Honorary Titles
- Honorary Professor of the R. E. Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
- Associate Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA.
- Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGAF).
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS).
- Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS).
Memberships in Professional Societies
- American Gastroenterological Association (AGA).
- American Pancreatic Association (APA).
- Asian-Pacific Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (A-PHPBA).
- Professional Association of German Surgeons (BDC).
- British Medical Association (BMA).
- German Society of General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV).
- German Society of Surgery (DGCH).
- German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS).
- German Pancreatic Club (DPC).
- European Digestive Surgery (EDS).
- European-African Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (E.AHPBA).
- European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS).
- European Pancreatic Club (EPC).
- European Surgical Association (ESA).
- International Association of Pancreatology (IAP).
- International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA).
- Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT).
- Association of Bavarian Surgeons (VBC).
Photo of the doctor: (c) Universitätsklinikum Halle (Saale)
