HELIOS Expert
Prof. Dr. med. Heinrich Klues
Chief physician at HELIOS Klinikum Krefeld
Specialist fields (in extracts)
- Special heart catheter methods
- Electrophysiology
- Clarification of all heart-circulatory problems
- Heart insufficiency
- Cardiomyopathy
- Modern and invasive diagnostics and treatment of all cardiac arrhythmias including ablation of atrial fibrillation
- Inflammatory heart diseases of the valves, the heart muscle or the pericardium
- Congenital or aquirred heart valve defects
- High blood pressure and heart diseases caused by high blood pressure
- Care before an after heart transplantation
- Diagnostic and care of cardiac reasons, of stroke and other arterial vessel closures
- Most modern, not invasive image guided diagnostic, ultrasound of the heart (3D flow quantification with regards to heart valva defects, echocardiography)
- Cardiac MRI
- Cardio CT technology (256 line CT) in cooperation with the experts in radiology
Curriculum vitae (in extracts)
| 1976 -1983 | Medical school- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
| 1983 | Final examination; Approval as medical doctor |
| 1983 – 1987 | Internship (fellow) Internal medicine – St. Joseph’s hospital Warendorf Dept. of Internal medicine; Director Dr. H. Kahlert |
| 1987 – 1989 | Internship (senior fellow) med. Clinic II/cardiology, general Hospital Bielefeld-Mitte; Director Prof. Dr. med. H. Kuhn |
| 1988 | Recognition as “specialist of internal medicine” |
| 1989 – 1991 | Research fellowship National Institute of Health (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute; NHLBI), Cardiology and Cardiac Pathology Branches, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Directors: S.E. Epstein, MD (cardiology branch) W.C. Roberst MD (cardiac pathology branch) |
| 1991 | Research assistant (fellow) Medical Clinic I, University – hospital, RWTH Aachen; Director Prof. Dr. P. Hanrath |
| 1992 – 1995 | Assistant medical director, medical clinic I, RWTH Aachen |
| 1993 | Recognition as specialist in “cardiology” |
| 1995 – 1999 | Representative of the Director of the medical clinic I, RWTH Aachen |
| 1998 | Recognition as “specialist internal intensive care medicine” |
| 1999 | Director of the Medical Clinic I/Cardiology, HELIOS Hospital Krefeld |
