Gastric balloon in Sachsenhausen Hospital

Sachsenhausen Clinic is one of the best medical facilities in Europe in bariatric, general and abdominal surgery. Visceral or abdominal surgery includes treatment of gastrointestinal tract and abdomen organs. Among them are the stomach, liver, gallbladder, and intestines.

The treatment in the Hospital includes:

• preoperative examinations
• surgical intervention
• postoperative control of a patient
• plastic surgery (after bariatric procedures).

Sachsenhausen surgeons offer the laparoscopic method of procedures. This technique is minimally invasive. It helps patients to undergo an operation easily and to fast recovery.

Heart surgeons of the Sachsenhausen Hospital apply Chest Pain Unit for emergency care of heart attack patients.

Phlebologists of the new Angiology and Interventional Radiology Department provide high-quality vessels treatment.

Sachsenhausen Surgery Clinic consists of:

• Abdominal Surgery Center
• Oncology Surgery Center
• Obesity (bariatric) Surgery Center
• Hernia Surgery Center
• Reflux Surgery Center
• Proctology Center
• Orthopedics Center

Surgeons perform over 500 obesity procedures annually. Gastroenterologists of the Center are among top doctors in Germany according to Focus Magazine. They provide original and repeated bariatric surgeries. A patient receives the medical consultation with a surgeon, endocrinologist, psychologist and diabetologist.

Surgeons perform 275,000 inguinal hernias and 100,000 ventral (abdominal) hernias surgeries per year. During the consultation, a surgeon discusses with a patient the method of operation.

Specialists provide such procedures as:

• Inguinal and femoral hernias surgery
• Umbilical hernia surgery
• Cicatricial hernia operation
• Parastomal hernia surgery
• Hiatal hernia operation
• Reherniation treatment.

Surgeons offer minimally invasive and organ-preserving procedures. These methods help a woman be able to have a baby.

Specialists of the Center deliver over 1,300 babies per year. The success of delivery depends on accurate diagnostics. Doctors may detect complications at the early stages of fetal development. Patients receive necessary information and individual treatment plan.

Diabetes Center is the first medical facility in Europe of such type. The Center is the best institution of diabetes treatment in Germany according to Focus Journal. Endocrinologists provide diabetes treatment for over 1,000 patients per year. Specialists of the Center cooperate with doctors of other specialties due to disease complexity.

Specialists of Sleep Laboratory offer diagnostics of sleep processes, which affects vessel diseases. The Center has Deutsche Gesellschaft certificate as one of the best sleep laboratories in Europe. Doctors make records of biosignals during the sleep using polysomnography. Sleep diagnostics helps patients to avoid heart and lung diseases.