Open heart surgery in Austria: Best Clinics and Costs 2024

Dr. Miklos Pinter has been working non-stop in various fields of pediatrics for over 30 years. Thanks to his many years of experience in pediatrics, pediatric ultrasound diagnostics and pediatric cardiology, Dr. Pinter is able to provide quick and effective assistance to parents and patients, including the most difficult issues. In addition to his main practice, Dr. Pinter is also: - Head of Emergency Medicine at the Clinical Center for Children's Heart Diseases Kinderhezzentrum-Linz, - Founder and director of the Children's Health Center in Vienna, - From 2017, he founded his office at the Vienna Medical Clinic Wiener Privatklinik Health Care Center. Immediately after graduation, Pinter began special training in Hungary, in a large pediatric center, where he received the brilliant basics in medical education.Then the doctor arrived in Vienna after the invitation. Here he already worked with ultrasound diagnostics, and has been taught in various places and clinics in Austria. For many years, Pinter was the head of the ultrasound and cardiology outpatient department at the main hospital in St. Pölten. From St. Pölten, he moved to Linz, where for seven years he managed a cardiology clinic at the Children's Cardiology Center. Then the doctor returned to Vienna, where he founded a pediatric center in a private clinic Böblingen and led it for years. At the moment, the office of Dr. Pinter located at the Vienna private clinic. Services provided: Dr. Pinter provides a wide range of medical services, including the diagnosis and treatment of general and specialized pediatric diseases. In his private office, the following technical tasks can be carried out: - complete cardiological diagnosis (color Doppler echocardiography, 24-hour ECG, bicycle ergometry, 24-hour blood pressure measurement) - general ultrasound examinations (skull sonography, abdominal ultrasound, soft tissue sonography, etc.) - general blood test (calculation by electronic card)- rapid tests (CRP, streptococci) - allergic skin test - check of the function of the small respiratory tract Further necessary examinations (radiography, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, isotope diagnostics, etc.) can be carried out in the same building. 

Daniel Zimpfer studied medicine in Vienna and received special training in cardiac surgery and vascular surgery at MedUni Vienna. He has a Master of Business Administration in Health (WU Vienna) and completed a surgery program at Harvard Medical School. In 2012, he became medical director of the mechanical circulatory support program, and since 2014 he became the head of the Department of Surgery for Congenital Heart Diseases. Professor Zimpfer is a member of numerous national and international specialized societies, steering committees and reviewers in several leading specialized journals in the field of cardiovascular surgery

Professor Ehrlich began his career at the University Hospital Vienna in 1993 and since May 2010 has been managing the aneurysm program at the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital Vienna. The doctor graduated from the Medical University in Vienna and began his studies at the Faculty of Surgery, graduating in 2002 and cardiac surgery in 2005. From 1997 to 1999, Professor Ehrlich interrupted his studies and worked for a long time at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. His list of publications includes over 100 articles in the field of aneurysm surgery. In addition, Professor Marek Ehrlich is fluent in English and Polish. Professional education: • 1986-1987 Clinical practice as a student with nocturnal duties at the Paracelsus Clinic on Grinzigerberg • 1995-2002 Surgery training at the General Surgery Department of the Vienna General Hospital Univ.Prof. Dr. Marek Ehrlich Cardiac Surgeon • 1995-2002 Surgery training at the General Surgery Department of the Vienna General Hospital • 2002-2005 Training of specialists in the field of cardiac surgery • 2003 Training in surgery • 2004 Senior Physician, Head of the General Hospital in Vienna Scientific activities abroad: • 1989: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Stanford University Hospital, California, USA, with Professor Chumway, Professor Miller and Professor Starnes • 1990: Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Birmingham, Alabama, USA, with Professor Pacifico and Professor Kirklin • 1991: University Hospital of Cardiac Surgery, Houston, Texas, USA, with Professor Coselli • 1997-1999: Research at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York under the supervision of Professor Randall Flu Scientific activities in Austria: • 1993 - 1997 Department of Cardiac / Chest Surgery, AKH Vienna, "Collection and Analysis of Aneurysm Data» • 1995 - Department of Cardiac and Chest Surgery, AKH. Experimental studies of the spinal cord and neuroprotection in a model of breast stenting in animals. Current study: • Experimental Stent-Graft Treatment of Ascending Aortic Dissection Scientific Awards: • 1995 "Brain protection in cardiovascular surgery", Baden-Baden, Germany • 1996 Award for Best Abstract at the Birmingham Aortic Surgery Symposium, Birmingham, England • 1996 "The safety and effectiveness of aprotinin in operations on the thoracic aorta in conditions of deep hypothermic cardiac arrest.» • 2004 "Third International Endovascular Symposium", Tokyo, Japan • 2002 "Second International Endovascular Symposium", Tokyo, Japan • 2001 "The First International Endovascular Symposium", Tokyo, Japan • Keio University International Symposium, Life Science and Medicine • 1999 "Cardio-Aortic Surgery Strategy", Tokyo, Japan Congress Chairperson: • 1995 22nd World Congress of the International Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto, Japan Lectures: • 2002 International Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons "Neuroprotection in Aortic Surgery", Jeju Island, Korea • 2004 “Combined surgical and endovascular procedures in the treatment of acute type A dissections” Italian Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bologna, Italy • 2006. “What is the best brain protection method: hypothermic circulatory arrest?” Bad Naustadt, German