Ferdinand R. Waldenberger

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Ferdinand Rudolf Waldenberger (born May 23, 1958 in Steyr , Austria ) is an Austrian cardiac surgeon , university professor and medical director at the Kepler University Hospital , Linz , Upper Austria .

Life

Waldenberger completed his medical studies in nine semesters at the University of Innsbruck and operated on a heart for the first time at the age of 25 in Houston , Texas . He completed his training at the University Hospital Innsbruck (Franz Gschnitzer and Helmuth Scharfetter), the Division for Artificial Organs in Salt Lake City , Utah (Don Olson and Bill DeVries), and at the Texas Heart Institute , Houston, Texas (Denton Cooley and David Ott ). Waldenberger was part of the team that carried out the first heart transplant in Austria under Raimund Margreiter in 1983 , and in 1984 under Denton Cooley in Houston, he was responsible for the world's first successful heart transplant in a newborn. At the Charité in Berlin under Wolfgang Konertz, he carried out the first bypass operation on the beating heart in German-speaking countries in 1997 . Waldenberger's specialties were artificial hearts in adults and children as well as complex aortic aneurysm operations on the aortic arch with selective brain perfusion during his work in Vienna . In Leuven , Belgium, he conducted research from 1992 to 1995 at the Centrum voor Experimentele Heelkunde en Anaesthesiologie under Willem Flameng in the field of Myocardial Stunning, pulmonary hypertension and artificial hearts and obtained his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He received his teaching license with his habilitation in 1998 at the medical faculty of the University of Innsbruck.

In addition, Waldenberger carried out operations in Sudan and Yemen as part of charity projects . In Yemen, for example, he operated on an aortic aneurysm with aortic valve replacement and coarctation of the aorta . This operation took place in Yemen for the first time.

Waldenberger has held a chair for health economics and organizational ethics at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna since 2018 . He is the author and co-author of numerous scientific publications, several scientific books, author of the “Handbook for Heart Owners” and co-author of the book “Im kranken Haus”.

Publications

  • OUJ Okereke, OH Frazier, DA Cooley, F. Waldenberger, B. Radovancevic: Cardiac transplantation - Current results at the THI. In: Texas Heart Institute Journal. Volume 11, 1984, pp. 228-234
  • Ferdinand Rudolf Waldenberger: Novel cardiac assist devices with different unloading capacities. An experimental study (= Acta Biomedica Lovaniensia, Volume 107). Leuven University Press, Leuven Belgium 1995, ISBN 90-6186-673-1 , also: Dissertation, Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, 1995.
  • FR Waldenberger, H. Hotz, M. Haisjackl, W. Konertz: Surgical coronary revascularization on the beating heart. In: Journal of Cardiology . Volume 85, 1996, suppl. 4, pp. 35-41
  • W. Konertz, FR Waldenberger, M. Schmutzler, J. Ritter, J. Liu: Minimal access valve surgery through superior partial sternotomy: A preliminary study. In: The Journal of heart valve disease. Volume 5, No. 6, 1996, pp. 638-640
  • FR Waldenberger: New cardiac assist systems with different relief capacities. Pathophysiological experimental investigations.
  • Heinz Weber, Christoph Herrmann-Lingen, Rainer Spinka, Ferdinand Waldenberger: Heart failure. From symptom to therapy success. Springer-Verlag, Vienna and New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-211-72020-2
  • M. Gorlitzer, G. Weiss, F. Waldenberger, M. Grabenwöger: Combined Surgical and Endovascular Approach for the Treatment of Complex Thoracic Aortic Pathologies. In: Reinhart T. Grundmann (Ed.): Diagnosis and Treatment of Abdominal and Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms Including the Ascending Aorta and the Aortic Arch. ISBN 978-953-307-524-2
  • Ferdinand Waldenberger: Handbook for Heart Owners. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-8000-3991-5
  • Marieluise Harrer, Ferdinand Rudolf Waldenberger, Gabriel Weiss, Sandra Folkmann, Michael Gorlitzer, Reinhard Moidl, Martin Grabenwoeger: Aortic arch surgery using bilateral antegrade selective cerebral perfusion in combination with near infrared spectroscopy. In: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery . Volume 38, No. 5, November 2010, pp. 561-567, doi: 10.1016 / j.ejcts.2010.03.016
  • Michael Gorlitzer, Gabriel Weiss, Reinhard Moidl, Sandra Folkmann, Ferdinand Waldenberger, Martin Czerny and Martin Grabenwöger: Repair of stent graft-induced retrograde Type A aortic dissection using the E-vita open prosthesis. In: European Journal Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Volume 42, No. 3, September 2012, pp. 566-570, doi: 10.1093 / ejcts / ezs041

Rudolf Likar, Georg Pinter, Herbert Janig, Ferdinand Waldenberger: "In the sick house - doctors treat the health system". Verlag Carl Ueberreuter; 208 pages. ISBN 978-3-8000-7742-7

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personal data
SURNAME Waldenberger, Ferdinand R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldenberger, Ferdinand Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian heart surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Steyr