Walter Klepetko

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Walter Klepetko (born February 26, 1955 in Vienna ) is an Austrian thoracic surgeon . From 1989 to the beginning of 2018 he was head of the lung transplant program at the University Clinic Vienna, since 2010 he has been head of the Clinical Department for Thoracic Surgery at the University Clinic for Surgery at the Medical University of Vienna at the Vienna General Hospital and, from July 2019, also head of the superordinate University Clinic for Surgery.

Life

Walter Klepetko attended the Gottschalkgasse high school in Vienna's 11th district of Simmering , where he graduated in 1973 . He then studied medicine at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1978 . From 1979 he was a regular doctor at the Wiener Neustadt hospital and from 1981/82 at the Lainz hospital .

From 1983 he trained as a specialist and worked at the II. Surgical Department of the University Hospital Vienna, where he became senior physician in 1989 . In 1986 he came to thoracic surgery through his then boss Ernst Wolner . Wolner and his team had previously carried out the first heart transplant in Vienna in 1984 . In 1989 Klepetko took over the management of the lung transplant program at the University Clinic in Vienna. On the night of November 8th to 9th, 1989, Klepetko performed the first lung transplant in Vienna. This was successful. Since then, the procedure has been carried out around 2000 times in Vienna until 2018. In 1990 he transplanted lung parts ( flaps ) for the first time on both sides and in 1995 . In 1993 Klepetko was appointed senior physician at the Clinical Department for Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University Clinic for Surgery and was appointed Associate Professor of Surgery there; since 2003 he has been a full professor.

After the fall of the Iron Curtain , Klepetko built up a network with neighboring countries to increase the availability of donor organs. He was also a co-developer of the surgical technique with the artificial heart-lung machine ECMO . In 2017 Klepetko was on Mount Kilimanjaro with ten previous transplant patients to show the performance and quality of life they had regained through the transplant. At the beginning of 2018, Klepetko handed over the management of the lung transplant program to Konrad Hötzenecker. As of July 1, 2019, in addition to the Clinical Department for Thoracic Surgery, he will succeed Michael Gnant as head of the superordinate University Clinic for Surgery at the Medical University of Vienna and the Vienna General Hospital.

His areas of expertise include surgery of bronchial carcinoma , surgery of functional lung diseases, surgery of pulmonary hypertension and lung transplantation and tracheal surgery . He is a past president of the European Society for Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) and has served on the board of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) for Europe .

Walter Klepetko is married and has two children. Among his patients was Niki Lauda .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Curriculum Vitae: W. Klepetko MD, Professor of Special Thoracic Surgery . Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f derStandard.at: Head of the day: Niki Laudas Transplanteur . Article dated August 10, 2018, accessed August 11, 2018.
  3. ^ A b c d Meduni Vienna: Walter Klepetko receives prize from the City of Vienna . Article dated December 16, 2015, accessed August 11, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Klepetko - Confraternität private clinic, Vienna . Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b Walter Klepetko new head of the Department of Surgery. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Lauda: Why the Vienna General Hospital is considered a global center for lung transplants . Article dated August 3, 2018, accessed August 11, 2018.
  7. ↑ AVISO press conference: Successful ascent of Kilimanjaro with a transplanted lung . OTS notification dated June 28, 2017, accessed August 11, 2018.
  8. ↑ Clinical Department for Thoracic Surgery of the Medical University of Vienna / General Hospital Vienna: employees . Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  9. ↑ Upper Austrian news: Konrad Hötzenecker: An Upper Austrian Lauda was operating . Article dated August 11, 2018, accessed August 12, 2018.
  10. ↑ New chief surgeon at the General Hospital: "The reputation of surgery as a whole has suffered". Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Prices of the City of Vienna for 2015 have been determined . OTS notification dated September 13, 2015, accessed on August 11, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Klepetko, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian thoracic surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna