Persian-speaking Cardiologists

Chest pain that has just started, or anything you suspect is a heart attack, is not something you book an appointment for. In that moment you call the emergency number, not a practice and not a directory like this page. Everything below is about the planned work instead: being assessed, being followed up, and living here with a diagnosis you already have.

In an emergency, or if there is a risk to life, call 112. Outside surgery hours the medical on-call service answers on 116 117, and it can also help you find an appointment. This page is only a directory and is not an emergency service.

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What a cardiology practice actually does

A cardiologist in Germany is usually an internal medicine specialist who has concentrated on the heart (Facharzt für Innere Medizin und Kardiologie). The outpatient practice measures, interprets, and writes a report. Repeat prescriptions, day-to-day dose adjustments and the view of your whole body stay with the family practice; anything needing a catheter lab, an admission or an operating theatre happens in a hospital, and the practice sends you there and picks the follow-up back up afterwards. Ask for your own copy of every report: if you change practice or city, those pages are the whole history of your heart.

The tests you are likely to meet

• A resting ECG (Ruhe-EKG): sticky electrodes on chest, wrists and ankles, then a few minutes of lying still. The stillness is what makes the trace readable.
• An exercise ECG (Belastungs-EKG): you pedal a stationary bike while the resistance is raised in steps, with the trace and your blood pressure recorded as you go. Bring clothes you can move in.
• An ultrasound of the heart (Echokardiographie): gel and a probe on your chest while you lie on your side, and you may be asked to hold your breath. The loud swooshing is normal.
• A 24-hour rhythm recording (Langzeit-EKG): a small recorder stays on you overnight and goes back the next morning. Fill in the diary that comes with it: what you were doing each hour, and when you noticed something. The diary is what makes the recording interpretable.
• A 24-hour blood pressure measurement (Langzeit-Blutdruckmessung): a cuff that inflates by itself at set intervals, day and night. Live your ordinary day while you wear it, because an ordinary day is what it is meant to capture.

Some cardiac checks are offered as a private service, billed under the heading Individuelle Gesundheitsleistungen, or IGeL, and statutory insurance does not pay for them. A written agreement with a price has to be given to you first, so the form put in front of you to sign is itself the signal. Ask whether a check is insured or private in your situation and why, and what stays unclear if you skip it. Saying no should change nothing about the insured part of your care, and your own insurer decides what is covered.

The long-term programme insurers run for coronary heart disease

Statutory insurers run structured programmes called Disease-Management-Programme, or DMP, and one of them is for coronary heart disease. Taking part is voluntary and carries no separate fee; enrolment usually goes through the family doctor, and you sign a participation form and a data consent form.

What you get back is mostly order rather than new treatment: follow-up at set intervals scheduled in advance instead of turning up when something worries you, a documented plan, patient education courses, and regular written contact between family doctor and specialist. Entry conditions are set by each insurer, so ask yours which programme it runs, who enrols you, and whether being registered as a chronic patient changes the annual cap on what you pay yourself.

If your diagnosis came from another country

You are not a new patient here, you are a half-finished file, and whatever you bring shortens the work by that much:

• A list of your medication by active ingredient, with dose and time of day. Plenty of cardiac drugs are sold under a different brand name in Germany.
• Earlier ECG traces on paper. A normal trace has its own shape for every person, and an old recording to compare against does something no verbal account replaces.
• Ultrasound and angiography reports, and hospital discharge letters, even in a language that is not German: figures, curves and drug names read across languages.
• Your device card, if you have a pacemaker or another implant (Herzschrittmacherausweis or Implantatpass). It carries the model and the date it was fitted, and it gets asked for before any scan involving a magnet. It belongs in your wallet, not a drawer at home.

Being sent here before an unrelated operation

One of the commonest reasons for a cardiology appointment is not the heart at all. Before another operation, on a knee or an abdomen or anything under general anaesthetic, the anaesthetic department or the surgeon asks for a cardiac assessment and sign-off. Say that when you call, with the date of the operation, because some practices keep slots for exactly this. Take the request letter, the hospital's name and your earlier cardiac paperwork, and if you take a blood thinner say so at the start. Get the report in writing and ask how long it stays valid, because a postponed operation can mean repeating it.

Why your own description changes the accuracy of the record

The measurements are steered by the one thing only you can supply: when it started, how long it lasted, what you were doing, whether resting made a difference, and whether it was the first time or a repeat. In your first language those are ordinary sentences; in a second they become difficult technical work. What does not get said in the room does not reach the report, and the next decision is built on that report. Write your notes down in your own language before you go, since a heart does not perform in the waiting room.

In person, and chosen by distance

The core work of this field cannot be done remotely: an electrode has to stick to skin, a probe has to sit on a chest, and someone has to fit the recorder and take it back a day later. Distance costs you something real, especially if follow-up means several visits a year. The list of cities sits at the bottom of this page, so start from your own city or the nearest large one. This category has no sub-categories, so the list cannot tell you who does a particular test: ask the practice.

What to ask when you call

• Whether the heart ultrasound and the 24-hour recording are done in-house or sent elsewhere.
• How soon a pre-operative assessment can be had, and whether its report is ready the same day.
• Whether you get a printed copy of the report, or only the family doctor does.
• Whether they enrol you in the DMP themselves or leave that to the family doctor.
• Which checks are insured in your situation and which are private, and what the private ones cost.
• YabInfy checks none of this, so ask for it yourself, and ask to see the document where it matters.

Choosing from this list

Reviews here can tell you what a patient genuinely saw: how long the wait was, whether the tests happened in one visit or three, whether the report reached the family doctor, and whether anyone explained the result to the end. None of them can tell you whether an ECG was read correctly. The Verified badge appears only on a profile whose owner has claimed it, and its absence says nothing about the doctor. The phone number sits behind "Show contact details".

On a list of doctors, what you looked for is private in itself. YabInfy keeps counts of page views and never the name of the viewer. A review is the single exception: if you write one, it is public, under whatever name you pick.

The route through the health system in general, from referrals and appointments to what the first visit needs, is on Doctors and dentists, and the family practice on General practitioners. If you run a cardiology practice, add your business, and there is more about how this site works in the FAQ.