Rainer J. Zotz

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Rainer J. Zotz (* 1959 ) is a specialist in cardiology , angiology and special internal intensive care medicine and works as a professor at the Hannover Medical School (MHH).

Life

Rainer J. Zotz, the German-Austrian from the entrepreneurial, artistic and academic family Zotz comes, studied medicine at the University of Mainz , where he in 1985 with a thesis on the nature and frequency of the repetitive chamber response in humans became a Doctor of Medicine. He completed his habilitation at the University of Marburg and was appointed chief physician for internal medicine at the Schwalmstadt Clinic in 2003 . In the same year he was appointed adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Marburg. Zotz has been a professor at the Hannover Medical School since 2006. Until 2010 he worked as chief physician for cardiology at the university's teaching hospital , the Herford Clinic , where he was responsible for the Medical Clinic III, which focuses on treating patients with cardiovascular and vascular diseases. In 2010 he moved to the Marienhaus Clinic Eifel, clinic location Bitburg , where he set up a new department for cardiology as chief physician.

Research work

Rainer J. Zotz has emerged through numerous research work for the development of diagnostic procedures. During his time as a professor in Marburg, he developed a method for displaying any changes in the coronary vessels during long-term monitoring using a so-called swallow echo in addition to the resting and stress ECG . As the world's first provider of this new diagnostic measure for non-invasive cardiological examinations, he tested it in a research project on patients at a rural doctor's practice in Hesse.

The invasive method of X-ray angiography, in which the doctor penetrates the human body with a diagnostic device, is the standard for examining the coronary arteries . As an alternative, Zotz and his co-workers propose a non-invasive method of visualizing coronary vessels in 3D ultrasound data sets.

Zotz was also involved in the development of a method by which ultrasound probes record series of images of the heart in improved quality. The artifacts of the strong proper movement of the heart are reduced by registering images in pairs in the volume data sets using affine transformations. The method determines the parameters using Fourier-Mellin invariant descriptors and correlation methods .

Fonts

  • "Fragment reconstruction of coronary arteries using transesophageal echocardiography for coronary diagnostics." European journal of echocardiography: the journal of the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology 2008; 9 (6): 796-802 (with Philipp S. Wild; Benjamin Funke; Tobias Geisler and Adel Abushi)
  • "Pre-procedural expression of Mac-1 and LFA-1 on leukocytes for prediction of late restenosis and their possible correlation with advanced coronary artery disease." Cytometry. Part B, Clinical cytometry 2003; 53 (1): 63-9 (with Kazem Rahimi; Holger K. Maerz; and Attila Tárnok)
  • "Fragment reconstruction of coronary arteries by transesophageal echocardiography: a method for visualizing coronary arteries with ultrasound." Circulation 2002; 105 (13): 1579–84 (with Philipp S. Wild)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marburger UniJournal No. 17, October 2003, p. 57
  2. ^ Philipps University of Marburg: Appointment as extraordinary professor
  3. ↑ Hannover Medical School MHH Info October / November 2006, p. 52
  4. ^ Neue Westfälische , June 11, 2010
  5. ↑ Traugott Heil and Birgit Kuttler: Disease Management in Coronary Heart Disease . Managed Care 4, 2005, pp. 28-31 (PDF; 156 kB)
  6. ↑ Reconstruction of the coronary anatomy from echocardiograms (project of the University of Leipzig)
  7. ^ University of Leipzig: Volume reconstruction from TEE ultrasound image series . Technical Report 2002-54. Leipzig 2003
personal data
SURNAME Zotz, Rainer J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cardiologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959