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Poul Erik Bloch Thomsen

Poul Erik Bloch Thomsen MD, PhD

Cardiology
Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Hovedstaden), Denmark

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Specialist in heart disease with wide training and experience in treating high blood pressure , coronary artery disease and heart failure. Special interest for the treatment of heart rhythm disturbances , specifically atrial fibrillation.

Doctor from the University of Copenhagen 1966. Consultant at Aarhus General Hospital and Aarhus University Hospital from 1982 to 1993. From 1994 to 2011 chief physician at the cardiology department Gentofte Hospital, where he specifically was responsible for pacemaker operations curative treatment of rapid and life-threatening heart rhythms and the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) .

Poul Erik Bloch Thomsen has been a consultant on several cardiovascular departments in northern Europe, where he has taught younger colleagues in the above treatments and is internationally recognized for his research.

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