Prof. Dr. Alp Burak Çatakoğlu

Detailed imaging of the coronary arteries through the wrist under local anaesthesia. Discharge is usually possible within 1–2 hours.

Critical coronary stenoses can often be treated through the wrist with balloons and drug-eluting stents, without open bypass surgery.

Severe aortic stenosis can be treated by implanting a biological valve through the groin, without open-heart surgery.

Selected patients with severe mitral or tricuspid regurgitation may be treated with catheter-based clipping procedures.

Congenital defects between the heart chambers can be closed through the groin with dedicated occluder devices.

A patent foramen ovale associated with embolic events may be closed using a minimally invasive catheter procedure.

For selected patients with atrial fibrillation and high bleeding risk, left atrial appendage closure can reduce embolic risk.

Critical narrowing of the carotid arteries can be treated with stents and embolic protection filters.

A catheter-based procedure for selected patients with resistant hypertension, designed to support lasting blood-pressure control.