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The program includes:
- Initial presentation in the clinic
- clinical history taking
- physical examination
- review of medical records
- laboratory tests:
- complete blood count
- biochemical analysis of blood
- indicators of inflammation (CRP, ESR)
- indicators blood coagulation
- ultrasound of the breast
- preparation according to preoperative standard
- cervicoplasty and platysmaplasty
- symptomatic treatment
- control examinations
- the cost of essential medicines and materials
- nursing services
- full hospital accommodation
- explanation of future recommendations
- written statement
Required documents
- Medical records
- Photo of the target body region
Service
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About the department
The Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf offers the full range of medical services in these fields. The Chief Physician of the department is Prof. Dr. med. Marco Blessmann.
The department's surgeons have excellent qualifications in the restoration of defects in all human body parts caused by accidents, infections, cancers, systemic diseases, chronic impaired wound healing, congenital malformations, etc. During the planning of the intervention, all patient's wishes, his particular clinical case and possible concomitant diseases are taken into account.
The scope of tasks of the department's specialists covers all plastic and aesthetic interventions, including the treatment of wrinkles using fillers, injections of their own adipose tissue and botulinum toxin. The department cooperates closely with the Obesity Centre Hamburg‐Eppendorf, and therefore offers extensive options for the correction of sagging skin and stretch marks after weight loss.
The therapeutic service range of the department includes:
- Reconstructive surgery
- Soft tissue and skin defects caused by accidents, infectious and oncological diseases
- Chronic wounds (in peripheral arterial occlusive disease, chronic venous insufficiency), diabetic foot syndrome
- Bedsores
- Skin and soft tissue defects after irradiation or burns
- Thoracic wall defects/sternal osteitis
- Damage to nerves and tendons causing motor disorders
- Acne inversa
- Scars (due to burns, hypertrophic scars, keloid scars)
- Surgical wound cleaning
- Vacuum therapy (negative-pressure wound therapy)
- Temporary closure of defects using artificial skin
- Skin transplantation (full-thickness and split-thickness skin grafts)
- Local skin graft plastic surgery
- Implantation of skin expander for its stretching
- Implantation of free skin grafts, adipose or bone tissue
- Microsurgical tissue transplantation
- Plastic surgery
- Body reshaping
- Abdominoplasty
- Upper arm lift
- Thigh lift
- Buttock lift
- Body lifting
- Breast lift and augmentation
- Liposuction
- Facial plastic surgery
- Upper and lower eyelid lift
- Face lift
- Forehead lift
- Neck lift
- Midface lift
- Injection lipolysis
- Wrinkle treatment (hyaluronic acid, botulinum toxin, lipofilling)
- Nose reshaping
- Ear reshaping
- Genital plastic surgery
- Labiaplasty
- Treatment of hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating)
- Body reshaping
- Breast surgery
- Breast reduction
- Breast augmentation
- Breast lift
- Breast reconstruction after cancer, including nipple and areola reconstruction
- Correction of breast malformations and asymmetry
- Lipofilling for breast augmentation
- Breast implant replacement
- Treatment of gynecomastia in men
- Other surgical services
Curriculum vitae
Education and Professional Career
- 1992 Study of Medicine, Philipps University of Marburg.
- 2001 University Degree in Medicine, University of Hamburg; study of Dentistry at the University of Hamburg; Resident, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Hamburg, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf.
- 2002 University Degree in Dentistry, University of Hamburg.
- 2003 Assistant Physician, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
- 2005 Doctoral thesis defense in Dentistry (magna cum laude); doctoral thesis defense in Medicine (magna cum laude).
- 2006 Exam to become a Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
- 2007 Attending Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf.
- 2009 Qualification in Head Plastic Surgery; Habilitation on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hamburg; Venia Legendi as Private /University Lecturer.
- 2010 Attending Surgeon of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery; Attending Physician of the Department of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, University Hospital HAmburg-Eppendorf; Trauma Clinic of the Hamburg Insurance Associations, Diaconic Clinic Agaplesion in Hamburg.
- 2014 Exam to become a Consulting Physician in Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery; Professorship; Chief Physician of the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf.
Membership in Professional Societies
- German Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
- Professional Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
- German Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
- European Association of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery.
Photo of the doctor: (c) Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
About hospital
According to the Focus magazine, the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf ranks among the top ten hospitals in Germany!
Since its foundation in 1889, the hospital has taken a leading position in the European medical arena and still occupies it until today. A highly competent medical team of more than 11,000 employees takes care of the health of patients. About 2,900 of them are doctors and researchers, while more than 3,400 of them work as nurses and therapists. The hospital has 1,738 beds for inpatient treatment. The key principles of each employee’s work is care for the health and well-being of the patient.
It is worth noting that the medical facility became the first university hospital in Europe, which introduced an electronic system for storing medical histories. Thus, all the processes of diagnostics and treatment are stored electronically. In 2011, the hospital was certified as the first fully digital hospital in Europe.
The hospital presents all fields of modern medicine. The doctors of the medical facility have the necessary theoretical knowledge and enormous clinical experience, which allows them to easily cope with the treatment of common and extremely rare, complex clinical cases.
An important component of the university hospital work is research activities aimed at the development of innovative diagnostic and treatment methods. The main scientific focuses of the hospital include neurobiology, oncology, examination of the cardiovascular system, infectious and inflammatory diseases. Today, the key attention is also paid to researches in the field of molecular imaging and skeletal biology.
The hospital is distinguished not only by the first-class medical care, advanced technical equipment, but also by the modern infrastructure, courteousness, friendly and respectful attitude towards the patient by the entire medical staff.
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Accommodation in hospital
Patients rooms
The patients of the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf live in comfortable single and double rooms designed in bright colors. Each room is equipped with an ensuite bathroom with a toilet and a shower. The standard room includes an automatically adjustable bed, a bedside table, a wardrobe, a table and chairs for receiving visitors, a telephone, a radio and a TV. Also, there is Wi-Fi access.
Meals and Menus
The patient and his accompanying person have a daily choice of three menus. If for any reason you do not eat all the food, you will be offered an individual menu. Please inform the medical staff about your dietary preferences prior to the treatment.
Further details
Standard rooms include:
Religion
Religious services are available upon request.
Accompanying person
During the inpatient program, an accompanying person may stay with you in a patient room or hotel of your choice.
Hospital accommodation
During the outpatient program, you may stay in a hotel at the hospital.
Hotel
During the outpatient program, you may stay in a hotel of your choice. Managers will help you choose the most suitable options.
The hospital offers a full range of laboratory tests (general, hormonal, tests for infections, antibodies, tumor markers, etc.), genetic tests, various modifications of ultrasound scans, CT scans, MRI and PET / CT, angiography, myelography, biopsy and other examinations. Treatment with medications, endoscopic and robotic operations, stereotaxic interventions is carried out here, modern types of radiation therapy are also used. The hospital offers patients all the necessary therapeutic techniques.
- Coiling and clipping of aneurysms of different localizations
- Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting in patients with portal hypertension
- Minimally invasive surgeries (da Vinci)
- Removal and reconstruction of mammary glands
- Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC)
These are arteriovenous malformations and angiomas, vascular aneurysms, pathologies of the mammary glands, pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence, malignant tumors of various localizations (area of special attention is treatment of intestinal cancer), pathologies of liver and pancreas, cataracts and rare ophthalmic pathologies (aphakia, aniridia ), infertility and other diseases.
- Interventional neuroradiology
- Mammology
- Oncology
- Gastroenterology
- Surgery
Over 2,900 highly qualified physicians and researchers work at the hospital.