Cardiology
Advanced treatment centres
Non-invasive medical technologies
Private medical centres
Heart disease
MHL is always seeking the best new treatments in cardiology as well as outstanding treatment centres to which international patients can apply.
Some of the treatments and technologies may not already be well known in some countries so we are pleased to provide an introduction here.
Niobe®  magnetically guided catheterisation
Heart centres around the world use catheterisation as part of both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Until recently this involved the insertion of catheters elsewhere and navigating them through the body and into the heart using guidewires.

Now the advanced software of the Niobe system uses magnetic guidance from outside the body instead of wires.  This enables enables the surgeon to navigate the catheter through the body and to place it in position with great precision and reduces exposure to X-rays. 

For further information visit the Niobe Catheterisation page
Niobe heart catherisation
Niobe avoids the need to inserted wires into the patient to guide a catheter to the heart
Important note to all patients
MHL (Medilux Healthcare Ltd.) promotes selected clinics and certain specialities within individual hospitals, where we believe the standards of care and medical equipment to be exceptional.  We provide you with general information and details of how to make contact with the centre. 
Sometimes we provide a dedicated e-mail address and we pass your enquiry to the relevant department but we cannot advise or enter into correspondence about individual cases and we do not arrange or facilitate treatments  All the centres that we feature have international patient enquiry services which will be pleased to answer your questions about services and costs.
Occluder Closure
An occluder is an innovative technique for percutaneous transluminal closure of defects in the septum of the heart (without resorting to heart surgery).
Occluder closure animated illustration
A fine synthetic tube (catheter) is inserted through the skin in the region of the groin and advanced via the vascular system into the heart. A 'folded up' wire-mesh implant is then advanced as far as the defect to be closed (hole), where it is opened up.
This does not constitute a cardiac surgical procedure in the conventional sense and normally, the patient can be discharged 1-2 days later.
This technique can be used to repair Atrium Septal Defect (hole in the septum of the atrium) and Patent Foramen Ovale (passage/slit in the septum of the atrium)
Source:  Kardiologische Praxis Bremen
 
Treatment Centres
Visit the Cardiology Centres page of our web site MHL Clinics for details of centres offering these and other cardiac treatments.
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