Biography

Professor Doctor Mark Ulrich Becher is a recognised specialist in internal medicine and cardiology with additional qualifications in interventional cardiology, heart failure and special cardiology for adults with congenital heart disease. The main goal of the Clinic of Cardiology is in providing quality and professional therapeutic medical care to patients. The main task is to diagnose and treat cardiovascular diseases (cardiology), as well as vascular diseases (angiology) and lung disease (pulmonology). Highly professional specialists within the walls of our Clinic provide the full spectrum of currently known non-invasive and invasive cardiac methods of treatment, cardiac catheterization, implantation of pacemakers and defibrillators. In addition, in the Clinic of Cardiology and General Internal Medicine for you, pulmonological and non-invasive angiologic diagnostics is performed, which is carried out using advanced technologies and the latest generation of equipment. Techniques and treatment methods The following treatment methods are used at the Cardiology Centre of the City Hospital Solingen, Germany: pacemaker-implantation and unit replacement (after a preliminary cardiological examination); coronary angiographies; stent implantation; intravascular ultrasound; intravascular pressure measurement; drug-eluting balloon (DEB); CTO recanalisation; 24-hour cardiac catheterisation readiness in acute cardiac infarction/coronary syndrome; clinical (ambulatory) cardiac catheterisation; intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP); pulmonary function tests (spirometry and whole body plethysmography including non-specific provocation test).