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Prim. Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Alexander Niessner
Cardiology · Internal Medicine · Intensive Care MedicineSpecialist in internal medicine, cardiology and intensive care medicine — with a focus on cardiovascular disease, prevention and risk assessment.
Specialist field
Cardiology · Internal Medicine · Intensive Care Medicine
Wahlarzt / insurance funds
Wahlarzt (private practice)
A Wahlarzt is a private-practice physician: you pay the fee directly and can claim part of it back from your health insurance fund.
Consultation hours
Tuesday 16:00 – 20:00
Qualifications & further training
Head of the 2nd Medical Department with Cardiology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Klinik Landstraße
Interventional cardiologist with 15 years of experience, including heading the catheterisation laboratory at Vienna General Hospital (AKH); currently head of the interventional cardiology working group of the Austrian Society of Cardiology
Habilitation (venia docendi)
Active in the European Society of Cardiology, including drafting European guidelines
Master of Science in Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Services offered
Cardiac catheterisation — advice on whether it is needed and, where appropriate, performed in hospital, including percutaneous coronary intervention (balloon dilatation and stenting of a narrowed coronary artery) using modern diagnostics such as intravascular imaging and pressure-wire measurement
Examinations
- ECG (electrocardiogram) — shows whether the heart muscle is currently under-supplied or whether arrhythmias are present
- Cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography) — a routine examination to detect heart disease: pumping function, pressures within the heart and valve competence, together with the detection of valve and heart-muscle disease, blood clots, fluid accumulation and malformations of the aorta or the heart wall
- Ultrasound of the neck vessels (duplex sonography of the extracranial carotid and vertebral arteries) — assesses changes in the vessel wall such as atherosclerotic deposits and narrowing
- 24-hour Holter ECG — an ambulatory recording over 24 hours, used to assess the extent of arrhythmias and to detect those that occur only rarely
- 24-hour blood pressure monitoring — the best method for assessing blood pressure behaviour in everyday life and particularly at night
- Exercise testing (exercise ECG) — detects an under-supply of the heart muscle under exertion, gives information on exercise-induced arrhythmias and blood pressure behaviour, and forms the basis for planning health-promoting endurance training
Cardiovascular prevention — individual advice on optimising lifestyle in order to prevent cardiovascular disease from developing or progressing
Medication management as part of routine check-ups for known cardiovascular disease — based on the latest scientific evidence, drawn from former leadership of the cardiovascular pharmacotherapy working group of the European Society of Cardiology
