Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
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Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is one of the largest university hospitals in Europe and internationally renowned for its excellence in teaching and training. Charité extends over four campuses and has close to 100 different Departments and Institutes, where 14,576 staff are employed.
Department of Cardiology (Campus Virchow Klinikum) works in close cooperation with the German Heart Center Berlin, diagnosing and treating many local and supraregional patients with various rhythm disturbances. This includes the complete spectrum of non-invasive and invasive techniques for myocardial, coronary, and electrophysiological diagnostics and interventions. Together the institutes have five dedicated electrophysiology catheter laboratories at their demand and treat more then 450/150 patients with supraventricular/ventricular rhythm disturbances annually. The main task of the Department of Cardiology in STOPSTORM the recruitment and treatment of patients with ventricular arrhythmias for STAR treatment.
The Department for Radiation Oncology is present at two locations in Berlin, with a main location at Campus Virchow-Klinikum. Per year, a total number of >1300 patients are treated at the department. There is a large expertise of stereotactic radiation therapy with more than 300 intracranial radiosurgical treatments annually and more than 250 stereotactic body radiotherapy treatments annually.
In STOPSTORM the department is responsible for radiosurgical treatment of the patients assigned from the cardiology partner (evaluation inclusion/exclusion criteria, coordination of anatomical imaging procedures for treatment planning, contrast-enhanced 4D-planning CT, stereotactic body radiosurgery treatment planning, quality assessment and accomplishment of SBRT-treatment regarding image guidance aspects).
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Dr. Felix Mehrhof
Dr. Felix Mehrhof is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine and radiation oncology and since 2016 working fulltime in the Department of Radiation Oncology. He will serve as the local coordinator in STOPSTORM and will be responsible for coordination and treatment of patients within the department of radiation oncology.
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kluge
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kluge is a medical physicist specialist with a focus on stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic body radiotherapy. Dr. Kluge is responsible for the treatment planning and quality assurance aspects within the stereotactic radiosurgical treatment complex of STOPSTORM.
Prof. Dr. Volker Budach
Prof. Dr. Volker Budach is the director of the Department of Radiation Oncology. He has a long-standing expertise in radiation oncology and in the field of stereotactic radiotherapy of intracranial benign and malignant lesions, as well as in the field of stereotactic body radiotherapy.
Prof. Dr. Leif-Hendrik Boldt
Prof. Dr. Leif-Hendrik Boldt is deputy director of the Department of Cardiology. He has a special expertise in electrophysiology and in the field of mapping of malignant ventricular arrhythmias and catheter ablation. Prof. Boldt will be responsible for the identification of patients, the electrophysiological evaluation and mapping procedures, as well as coordination of any cardiological diagnostic procedures for patients within STOPSTORM.
Dr. Abdul Parwani
Dr. Abdul Parwani is a board certified specialist in cardiology and head of the Electrophysiology of the Department of Cardiology. He has a special expertise in electrophysiology and in the field of mapping of cardiac arrythmias and catheter ablation. He will be involved in the electrophysiological evaluation and mapping procedures for patients within STOPSTORM.
Publications uitklapper, klik om te openen
- Senger C, Conti A, Kluge A, et al. Robotic stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for renal cell carcinoma in patients with impaired renal function. BMC Urol 2019; 19: 96.
- Hohendanner F, Romero I, Blaschke F, et al. Extent and magnitude of low voltage areas assessed by ultra-high-density electroanatomical mapping correlate with left atrial function. Int J Cardiol 2018; 272: 108-12.
- Parwani A, Hohendanner F, Boldt LH. Catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia. Herzschrittmacherther Elektrophysiol 2019; 30: 349-55.
- Mehrhof F, Löffler M, Gelbrich G, et al. A network against failing hearts - Introducing the German Competence Network Heart Failure. Int J Cardiol 2015; 145: 135-8.
