Axel Laczkovics

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Axel Maria Laczkovics (born June 17, 1946 in Vienna ) is a cardiac surgeon and was director of the Clinic for Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery at the Bergmannsheil University Hospital in Bochum for many years . Laczkovics retired in 2010.

Life

Axel Laczkovics was born on June 17, 1946 in Vienna. After studying medicine and doing a doctorate at the University of Vienna , he spent several stays abroad, for example at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of the Columbia University in New York, USA, at Stanford University School of Medicine, USA and at the University of Cambridge , England. In the meantime, he also specialized in the surgical treatment of congenital heart defects at the Munich Heart Center.

In 1980 Laczkovics became senior physician at the II. Surgical Clinic at the University of Vienna, where he carried out the first Vienna heart transplant on March 3, 1984 in a team with Ernst Wolner . In 1990 Laczkovics was appointed associate professor. In 1992 he followed a call to the Ruhr University Bochum (primo loco). He became director of the new cardiac and thoracic surgery at Bergmannsheil, which he set up himself and led until he left. During this time and afterwards he was also involved in setting up a number of foreign heart centers, including in three missions in Paramaribo ( Suriname ), in Baghdad , Tehran and most recently in Sanaa (Yemen). Laczkovics retired on October 31, 2010.

Honors

In 1990 Laczkovics received the Theodor Billroth Prize of the Austrian Society for Surgery as a co-author of the work "Impacts of low dose steroids and Prophylactic Monoclonal Antibodies on Acute Rejection in Cyclosporine- and Azathioprine-Immunosuppressed Cardiac Allografts".

Publications

Axel Laczkovics has published numerous scientific papers on topics such as pacemaker systems, cardiac surgery , experimental surgery and heart transplants.

Selected publication:

Wolner, E .; Laczkovics, A .; Havel, M .: New Trends in Heart Transplantation. 1st Vienna Symposium on New Trends in HTX, Vienna, September 1987, Bibliotheca Cardiologica No. 43, Rome 1988, ISBN 978-3-8055-4792-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Change of leadership in cardiac and thoracic surgery . In: Bergmannsheil press release . October 27, 2010. Accessed on May 6, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / p12854.typo3server.info  
  2. ↑ 25 years of heart transplantation in Vienna (PDF; 333 kB) Medical University of Vienna. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
  3. ↑ Bergmannsheil: Heart specialist retires . In: Ruhr news . October 29, 2010. Retrieved May 6, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Laczkovics, Axel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laczkovics, Axel Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian heart surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna