The Pediatric Cardiology – Cardiosurgery Department of Mitera Hospital was founded in order to offer specialized nursing. Our primary goal is to ensure recovery of the child’s health with safety and optimum long-term results. A significant percentage of the children’s population in Greece suffers from heart diseases.
Heart diseases may be:
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- congenital (appearing after birth)
- acquired (appearing at a later stage)
For their treatment, it is sometimes necessary to perform cardiosurgical operations.
In some cases, more than one of these operations is necessary to be performed over the years.
Director: Dr. Mitropoulos Fotios, Division Chairman of Paediatric, Congenital and Adult Cardiac Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgeon Paediatric & Adult
Dr. Mitropoulos has completed his General Surgery residency at Yale–New Haven Hospital and is a Diplomate of the American Board of General Surgery. He subsequently trained in Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCLA Medical Center under Professor H. Laks, where he became Board Certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and completed a fellowship in Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. Dr. Mitropoulos continued his academic career at UCLA as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Cardiac Surgery, later being unanimously elected Lecturer in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
He also served as Deputy Division Chief of Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center. Since 2016, he has been Chairman of the Division of Pediatric, Congenital, and Adult Cardiac Surgery at Mitera–Hygeia Hospitals and Chief of the Center of Excellence in Endoscopic Cardiac Surgery for both adult and pediatric patients. His areas of expertise include complex neonatal surgery, complex redo acquired cardiac surgery, totally endoscopic valve surgery, minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB), and the Ross and Ross–Pears procedures. His center is the only one in Greece and among the very few in Europe with recognized expertise in totally endoscopic pediatric and adult congenital cardiac surgery.