Eberhard Grube , MD

Director
Heart Center Siegburg
Siegburg, Other

Dr Grube has performed 350 open-heart operations on patients with heart valve disease and coronary heart disease as 1st assistant (Proff. Dr. W.D. Johnson and J. Hoffmann, Medical School of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA) Current research - Use of left cardiac echocontrast in the diagnosis of valvular heart disease. Development of a score scale of prog- nostic criteria for ultrasound guided compression of femoral arterial false aneurysms. Duplex and Intravascular ultrasound in the assessment of renal artery stenosis before and after angioplasty.Evaluation of different stent designs in coronary arteries. Restenosis after stent implantation (in cooperation with Professor Stertzer, Stanford University) Drug Delivery Stents and Covered Stents (in cooperation with Professor Stertzer, Stanford University) Flow alterations after stenting of old venous grafts measured by intracoro-nary Doppler ("flow wire") Coronary Doppler flow measurements and intravascular ultrasound in myo-cardial bridging.Platelet IIb/IIIa receptor blocade during angioplasty and stent implantation. Clinical evaluation of a percutaneous suturing device of femoral artery access sites after diagnostic heart catheterisation or coronary interven- tion (principal investigator of the STEAR- and STAR Trial) (In cooperation with J.B.Simpson MD, Redwood City, CA, USA) Distal Protection devices in PTCA/ Stenting of coronary arteries and SVG's. (principal investigator of the SAFE Trial) in cooperation with the German Cardiac Society -Distal Protection devices in Carotid Stenting in cooperation with the Unite De Cardiologie Nancy France(Occlusion Balloon versus Basket) - Hemodynamic and Ultrasonic evaluation of Stent Grafts in coronary arteries and saphenous vein grafts. (COSSET. STING study)- PTMR Laser Angioplasty with the Ranger Ultrasound Control Device- Enhancement of By-Pass-Grafting with the "Prevent Device"