Rainer B. Zotz

Rainer Bernd Zotz (* 1956 in Koblenz ) is a German doctor and hemostaseologist.

Career

Rainer B. Zotz, who comes from the Austrian-German entrepreneur, artist and scholarly family Zotz , received his doctorate in 1983 after studying medicine at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . He completed further training as a doctor for laboratory medicine at the German Armed Forces Central Hospital in Koblenz as well as internistic and clinical-chemical training at the University Hospital Essen . His habilitation included "Molecular-epidemiological studies for risk assessment in arterial and venous thrombophilia." Since 1994, Zotz worked as a researcher and doctor at the Institute for Hemostaseology and Transfusion Medicine (IHTM) at Heinrich Heine University.

research

His habilitation thesis showed new solution models for the identification, quantification and evaluation of molecular genetic and plasmatic risk factors of thrombophilia. "The solutions provide the basis for future risk stratification, especially for an individualized risk-adjusted prevention of thrombosis."

In 2007, Zotz presented an international study with 68,000 patients from 358 clinics in 32 countries, which revealed major deficiencies in the prophylaxis of thrombosis in hospitalized patients worldwide. According to the study, only half of all patients at high risk of venous thrombosis received adequate prophylaxis. 16 larger hospitals from Germany took part in the study.

Awards

• 2001 Alexander Schmidt Prize of the Society for Thrombosis and Hemostasis Research. Title of the award-winning work: "Prothrombin and Factor V Mutations in Women with a History of Thrombosis during Pregnancy and the Puerperium".
• 2005 Edens Prize of the Eberhard Igler Foundation for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of circulatory research.

Publications

• The fluorescence serological detection of antinuclear factors for the diagnosis and follow-up of various rheumatic diseases . Mainz 1983
• Investigations into the visualization of flowing blood by means of ultrasound. Experimental and clinical studies. Mainz 1994
• "Heredity of haemostaseological causes of arterial thrombocytes" (with Rüdiger E. Scharf). Hans D. Bruhn, Viola Hach-Wunderle, Christian M. Schambeck: Hemostaseology for the practice . Stuttgart 2007.
• Hemorrhagic and thromboembolic diseases . Düsseldorf 2006
• "HPA-1 polymorphism of αIIbβ3 modulates platelet adhesion onto immobilized fibrinogen in an in-vitro flow system." Thrombosis Journal 2007; 5: 2.

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1. ↑ Birgit Capelle: Edens Prize 2005  ( 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.  
2. ↑ "Thrombosis prophylaxis is often missing" (Ärzte Zeitung, October 11, 2007)
3. ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2001; 98 (19)
4. ↑ Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf: Press release 5/2006  ( 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.