Heart & Acute Cardiac Care

Biography

Prof. Dr. Julinda Mehilli was the first chief physician at the LAKUMED clinics to head the clinic for cardiology, pulmonology and internal intensive care medicine at the Landshut-Achdorf hospital. Prof. Dr. Mehilli is a specialist in internal medicine and cardiology and most recently worked as senior consultant in interventional cardiology at the German Heart Center and at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. With more than 6,000 coronary interventions and more than 2,000 catheter-assisted valve interventions, Prof. Dr. Mehilli among the most experienced interventionalists in Germany. In the period from 2001 to 2012, Prof. Dr. In addition to her clinical work, Mehilli managed to help set up and manage the world-renowned interventional ISAResearch center (clinical research group in the field of interventional cardiology). The center was in charge of the planning, implementation and publication of more than 50 important patient-oriented clinical studies, all of which were published in well-known journals. The results of these studies have significantly influenced the treatment of cardiac patients through their inclusion in the German and international guidelines. From 2012 she founded and headed the research group for minimally invasive cardiac procedures at the LMU and became a senior researcher at the Munich site at the DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research). The large number of high-ranking publications (more than 350 papers) with a total impact factor of over 3,800 prove their scientific excellence. "It is important to me that every patient with a cardiological problem can be cared for close to their home and that they do not have to travel long distances to get medical treatment," says Prof. Dr. Mehilli.The Landshut-Achdorf Hospital already offers many modern options for treating diseases of the heart - these services are to be expanded over the next few years and expanded to include new procedures. Our goal is to be able to offer highly specialized techniques based on the latest research in a regional clinic. We also strive to be able to provide holistic care to patients with heart failure at the Landshut-Achdorf Hospital: with a combination of drug and minimally invasive catheter-based therapy.

Research Interest

Interventional Cardiologist