Dr. Itzhak Herz

Dr. Itzhak Herz is an experienced, highly professional cardiologist, one of Israel's best specialists in coronary angiography procedures and stenting of cardiac vessels in cases of critical stenosis and high heart attack risk, and an expert in direct coronary stenting without prior vessel dilation, which significantly reduces the risk of restenosis. Dr. Herz also successfully uses the latest Watchman technology, reducing the risk of clot formation several times over.

Dr. Itzhak Herz graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University and completed a residency in cardiology at Sheba Hospital in Israel. To reach a high level of professionalism he spent four years improving in general medicine at Morristown Clinic (New Jersey, USA), and then studied interventional cardiology for several years at Maimonides Medical Center in New York, specializing in modern diagnostic cardiology, coronary angiography and stenting of cardiac vessels. Returning to Israel, he continued as a cardiologist in the cardiac catheterization department of Sourasky Medical Center and soon became its head.

Dr. Herz is a virtuoso of clinical coronary angiography and endovascular stenting, which enables him to regularly master and introduce the latest techniques of this important method of examining and treating the heart. In 1996 Dr. Herz implanted a coronary stent without prior dilation of the cardiac vessel, thereby reducing the risk of restenosis and embolism in a patient with a critical diagnosis. His unique experience allows him to use all methods of cardiac catheterization, including through the wrist.

Today Dr. Herz is engaged in research, teaches at the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University, is author and co-author of more than 60 scientific papers, and is a member of the Israeli Association of Cardiologists and the American College of Cardiology. He heads the cardiac catheterization laboratories at Ichilov and Herzliya Medical Center and the catheterization laboratory of Laniado Medical Center in Israel.

Dr. Itzhak Herz is a master of advanced diagnostic and therapeutic coronary angiography technologies, including:

• performing diagnostic coronary angiography of the heart arteries to detect and assess cardiac risks;
• placing modern intravascular stents at high risk of primary myocardial infarction and to prevent secondary heart attacks;
• performing therapeutic procedures using the innovative Watchman technology, which reduces the risk of clots and ischemic heart damage several times over;
• stenting cardiac vessels without prior dilation, minimizing the risk of secondary narrowing;
• implanting a latest-generation pacemaker to stabilize heart rhythm in arrhythmias and conduction disorders of any type.

High qualification and extensive practical experience allow Dr. Herz to obtain excellent treatment results and return a good quality of life to people with coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, sick sinus syndrome and other cardiac pathology.