Helping people with heart disease by providing the best possible medical care using the very latest technology – that’s the mission of the medical and nursing staff at the German Heart Center Berlin. Helping patients and their families, supporting doctors in their day-to-day practice, funding research and providing information on the possibilities offered by cardiac medicine – that has been the mission of the Friends of the German Heart Center Berlin for more than 30 years. Though every patient at the German Heart Center Berlin receives the best possible care, budgets for special technologies, science and ongoing education are nonetheless often very limited. That’s where the Friends of the German Heart Center Berlin comes in – a role it pursues with great dedication. What we do We fund life-saving heart surgeries which are not covered by health insurance. We support campaigns to save children from all over the world whose parents are without financial means and who therefore have no chance of being treated in their home country. We fund state-of-the-art technology that enables doctors to offer patients highly accurate, low-invasive diagnostic techniques and treatments. We support scientific work at the German Heart Center Berlin – by supporting ongoing training, research projects and medical publications. We also support efforts to inform and educate the general public about cardiac medicine by running information events and producing brochures and films.
Vascular surgery
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair — ≈ $56,219
- Abdominal endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) — ≈ $73,978
- Aortic arch replacement — ≈ $51,310
- Aortic reconstruction — ≈ $34,748
- Aortography — ≈ $6,467
- Aortoiliac allografting — ≈ $65,198
- Arteriovenous (AV) fistula surgery — ≈ $7,406
- Arteriovenous (AV) graft surgery — ≈ $10,343
- Bentall surgery — ≈ $76,504
- Complex aortic surgery — ≈ $93,253
- Endoscopic vein harvesting (EVH) for coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) — ≈ $1,069
- Endovascular thrombectomy — ≈ $19,429
- Femoral-popliteal bypass graft surgery — ≈ $31,750
- Peripheral artery bypass — ≈ $34,835
- Portocaval anastomosis — $0
- Reconstructive surgery for peripheral artery disease (PAD) — ≈ $26,248
- Renal artery bypass surgery — ≈ $30,430
- Ross operation — ≈ $64,583
- Secondary Cimino arteriovenous anastomosis surgery — ≈ $5,524
- Surgical thrombectomy — ≈ $21,653
- Thoracic aortic aneurysm surgery — ≈ $55,096
- Thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR) — ≈ $64,560
- Valve sparing root replacement (VSRR) — ≈ $49,109
Cardiac surgery
- Aortic valve replacement (AVR) — ≈ $54,600
- Arterial switch operation (ASO) — ≈ $47,841
- Atrial septal defect (ASD) repair in children — ≈ $54,590
- Atrioventricular canal defect surgery — ≈ $59,506
- Balloon angioplasty and stenting of aorta coarctation — ≈ $33,733
- Bio-prosthetic valve replacement — ≈ $64,640
- Blalock-Taussig shunt — ≈ $33,406
- Cardiac catheterization — ≈ $8,222
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator (CRT-D) — ≈ $60,614
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy with pacemaker (CRT-P) — ≈ $43,091
- Change of defibrillator — ≈ $19,780
- Coil embolization of intracardiac shunts and fistulas — ≈ $19,356
- Coronary catheterization — ≈ $6,034
- Double valve repair — ≈ $53,834
- Double valve replacement — ≈ $60,845
- Dual chamber pacemaker insertion — ≈ $22,120
- Ebstein anomaly correction — ≈ $68,861
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) — $0
- Fontan procedure — ≈ $43,078
- Fractional flow reserve (FFR) — ≈ $3,869
- Glenn procedure — ≈ $45,442
- Heart transplantation — ≈ $66,150
- Heart valve repair — ≈ $59,503
- Heart valve replacement — ≈ $77,730
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation (ICD) — $0
- Insertion of one electrode for implanted pacemaker or defibrillator — ≈ $47,897
- Insertion of two electrodes for implanted pacemaker or defibrillator — $0
- Intraaortic balloon pump (IABP) procedure — ≈ $9,033
- Leadless Pacemaker implantation Micra and Nanostim — ≈ $19,648
- Left atrial appendage occlusion — ≈ $42,666
- Management of ICD system — ≈ $4,013
- Management of pacemaker system — ≈ $2,185
- Mechanical valve replacement — ≈ $95,364
- Mitral valve replacement (MVR) — ≈ $59,452
- Nikaidoh procedure — ≈ $60,351
- NobleStitch™ PFO closure procedure — $0
- Norwood procedure — ≈ $70,835
- Pacemaker replacement — ≈ $13,766
- Partial anomalous pulmonary return (PAPVR) correction — $0
- Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) ligation in children — ≈ $34,195
- Percutaneous ASD closure — ≈ $26,646
- Percutaneous closure of ventricular septal defect (VSD) — ≈ $34,924
- Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with angioplasty — ≈ $18,881
- Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stent insertion — ≈ $27,080
- Permanent pacemaker implantation — ≈ $22,095
- Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) — ≈ $20,287
- Pulmonary artery thromboendarterectomy — ≈ $42,204
- Radical correction of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) — ≈ $51,675
- Rashkind procedure — ≈ $26,570
- Rastelli procedure — ≈ $37,830
- Removal of permanent pacemaker — ≈ $14,534
- Rotational atherectomy — ≈ $7,955
- Single chamber pacemaker insertion — ≈ $23,134
- Temporary pacemaker implantation — ≈ $3,433
- Total anomalous pulmonary return (TAPVR) correction — ≈ $48,655
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) — ≈ $143,586
- Transcatheter closure of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in adults — ≈ $28,440
- Transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement (PVR) — ≈ $64,495
- Tricuspid valve replacement (TVR) — ≈ $65,037
- Truncus arteriosus repair — ≈ $65,110
- Ventricular septal defect (VSD) repair in children — ≈ $13,248
