The Team

Dr. Pattakos operates within the second cardiac surgery division at Hygeia Hospital.  This team is comprised of cardiac surgeons with over 30 years of experience and it is directed by Dr. Stratis Pattakos who has experience with over 17000 cardiac operations.  The team leads the way in innovations regarding cardiac surgery such as:
 

• First off-pump (“beating heart”) coronary artery bypass procedure in Greece
• First robotic cardiac surgery operation in Greece
• Heart team comprised of cardiac surgeons, interventional cardiologists, radiologists, echocardiographers and vascular surgeons who perform advanced and complex transcatheter and hybrid operations such as TAVI, Mitraclip, Pascal, Valve-in-valve procedures and others. 
• Large experience with thoracoscopic mitral valve repair
• Total arterial revascularization for coronary artery bypass with use of two internal mammary arteries and radial artery grafts
• Large experience with open and percutaneous repair of complex aortic aneurysms and dissections