Dr. med. Pascal Heiniger

Approbation als Arzt 30.09.2010

10/2004-09/2010 
Universität Genf
 

Seit 02/2025
Belegarzt Kardiologie, Kardiologie Innenstadt, Bern
 

Seit 07/2024
Eigene Praxis für Kardiologie, Praxis Heiniger, Thun
 

Seit 01/2024
Belegarzt Privatklinik Bethanien, Zürich

01/2024-12/2024
Facharzt Kardiologie Swiss CardioVascular Clinic, Privatklinik Bethanien, Zürich

10/2022-06/2024
Fellow Nuklearmedizin (PET/SPECT/CT/MRI), Universitätsspital Zürich (USZ)

02/2021-06/2024
Oberarzt Kardiologie, Universitätsspital Zürich (USZ)

08/2020-01/2021
Oberarzt i. V. Kardiologie, Universitätsspital Zürich (USZ)

02/2020-07/2020
Fellow Herzinsuffizienz, Universitätsspital Zürich (USZ)

04/2018-01/2020
Assistenzarzt Kardiologie, Universitätsspital Zürich (USZ)

04/2017-03/2018
Assistenzarzt Anästhesiologie, Universitätsspital Zürich (USZ)

04/2015-03/2017
Assistenzarzt Kardiologie, Cardiocentro Ticino (CCT), Lugano

06/2013/-03/2015
Assistenzarzt Innere Medizin, Regionalspital La Carità, Locarno

06/2012-05/2013
Assistenzarzt Innere Medizin, Regionalspital Nyon (GHOL)

10/2010-05/2012
Assistenzarzt Innere Medizin, Universitätsspital Lausanne (CHUV)
 

2024
Europäische Zertifizierung für transthorakale Echokardiographie (TTE), EACVI

2024
Europäische Zertifizierung für transösophageale Echokardiographie (TEE), EACVI

2022
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Heart Failure/Postgraduate Course in Heart Failure (PCHF), Universität Zürich

2020
Facharzt für Kardiologie

2017
Facharzt für Allgemeine Innere Medizin

Heiniger PS, Igual GD, Galafton A, Albertini T, Gajic M, Jurisic S, Pingree R, Benz DC, Pazhenkottil AP, Giannopoulos AA, Kaufmann PA, Buechel RR. Impact of transmurality and location on the diagnostic performance of 13N-ammonia positron emission tomography in the detection of myocardial fibrosis - A hybrid positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance study. J Nucl Cardiol. 2025 Mar 1:102172. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102172. Online ahead of print.

Gajic M, Galafton A, Heiniger PS, Albertini T, Jurisic S, Gebhard C, Benz DC, Pazhenkottil AP, Giannopoulos AA, Kaufmann PA, Buechel RR. Effect of acute intravenous beta-blocker administration on myocardial blood flow during same-day hybrid CCTA/PET imaging. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 2024 Oct;40(10):2203-2212

Garefa C, Sager DF, Heiniger PS, Markendorf S, Albertini T, Jurisic S, Gajic M, Gebhard C, Benz DC, Pazhenkottil AP, Giannopoulos AA, Kaufmann PA, Slomka PJ, Buechel RR. Duration of adenosine-induced myocardial hyperemia - Insights from quantitative 13N-ammonia positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging 2024 Sep 30;25(10):1367-1373

Sager DF, Manz N, Manser S, Laubscher L, Stark AW, Schütze J, Heiniger PS, Markendorf S, Kaufmann PA, Gräni C, Buechel RR. Reproducibility of Left Ventricular Function Derived From Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Gated 13N-Ammonia Positron Emission Tomography Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: A Head-to-Head Comparison Using Hybrid Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance. Acad Radiol 2024 Apr;31(4):1248-1255

Hosseini S, Erhart L, Anwer S, Heiniger PS, Winkler NE, Cimen T, Kuzo N, Hess R, Akdis D, Costa S, Gasperetti A, Brunckhorst C, Duru F, Saguner AM, Tanner FC. Tissue Doppler echocardiography and outcome in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. Int J Cardiol 2022 Dec 1;368:86-93

Sokolski M, Trenson S, Sokolska JM, D'Amario D, Meyer P, Poku NK, Biering-Sørensen T, Højbjerg Lassen MC, Skaarup KG, Barge-Caballero E, Pouleur AC, Stolfo D, Sinagra G, Ablasser K, Muster V, Rainer PP, Wallner M, Chiodini A, Heiniger PS, Mikulicic F, Schwaiger J, Winnik S, Cakmak HA, Gaudenzi M, Mapelli M, Mattavelli I, Paul M, Cabac-Pogorevici I, Bouleti C, Lilliu M, Minoia C, Dauw J, Costa J, Celik A, Mewton N, Montenegro CEL, Matsue Y, Loncar G, Marchel M, Bechlioulis A, Michalis L, Dörr M, Prihadi E, Schoenrath F, Messroghli DR, Mullens W, Lund LH, Rosano GMC, Ponikowski P, Ruschitzka F, Flammer AJ. Heart failure in COVID-19: the multicentre, multinational PCHF-COVICAV registry. ESC Heart Fail. 2021 Dec;8(6):4955-4967

Anwer S*, Heiniger PS*, Rogler S, Erhart L, Cassani D, Kuzo N, Rebellius L, Schoenenberger-Berzins R, Schmid D, Nussbaum S, Schindler M, Kebernik J, Pazhenkottil AP, Gotschy A, Manka R, Meyer M, Gruner C, Tanner FC. Left ventricular mechanics and cardiovascular outcomes in non-compaction phenotype. Int J Cardiol. 2021 Aug 1;336:73-80.

Del Giorno R*, Heiniger PS*, Balestra L, Gabutti L. Blood Pressure Measurements with Different Currently Available Methods in Elderly Hypertensive Hospitalized Patients: A Real World Cross-Sectional Study. Biomed Res Int. 2019 Apr 1;2019:6274545.

Del Giorno R, Balestra L, Heiniger PS, Gabutti L. Blood pressure variability with different measurement methods: Reliability and predictors. A proof of concept cross sectional study in elderly hypertensive hospitalized patients. Medicine (Baltimore). 2019 Jul;98(28):e16347.

Heiniger PS, Holy EW, Maier W, Nietlispach F, Ruschitzka F, Stähli BE. [Therapeutic Strategies in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease: The Role of Coronary Revascularization]. Praxis (Bern 1994). 2019 Apr;108(6):401-409.

* shared first authorship