Thorsten Hanke MD

Dr. Thorsten Hanke, MD, is the Head, Chief Physician, Cardiac Surgeon at Albertinen Hospital. He has specialized in treating atrial fibrillation surgically since 2007 and inaugurated a surgical stand-alone LAA treatment program at the Cardiac Surgery Clinic in Harburg in 2016. He is the Head of the steering committee of the German Surgical Ablation Registry (CASE-AF), which started in 2016 and will oversee 400 patients after surgical ablation and LAA treatment. His research interests are Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Mitral Valve Annuloplasty, Aortic Diseases, Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Valve Diseases, Aortic Valve, Atrial Fibrillation, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Cardiovascular System, Heart Failure.