Mr J. Andreas Hoschtitzky

Clinical expertise

Mr J. Andreas Hoschtitzky is a paediatric and adult cardiac surgeon, who works primarily as a cardiothoracic surgeon for the congenital heart disease team at Royal Brompton Hospital.

His clinical expertise includes:

• valve repair surgery treating:
  • mitral valves
  • tricuspid valves (particularly Ebstein’s anomaly)
  • aortic valves
  • pulmonary valves
• repair of simple and complex congenital heart defects in children and adults
• aortic root surgery, including:
  • valve-sparing aortic root replacement
  • Ross procedure
  • aortic aneurysm surgery
  • personalised external aortic root support (PEARS) procedures
  • Ross-PEARS combined procedure
• surgery for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO)

“Royal Brompton’s congenital heart disease unit is one of the biggest and best in the UK: around 1,300 procedures are conducted here each year and the unit consistently has among the best patient outcomes in history. People born with CHD are living longer than ever before and, as a result, demand for these services is increasing.

Royal Brompton is also recognised as the most influential research unit in the world for adult CHD. It is an internationally-respected team.” – Mr J. Andreas Hoschtitzky

Biography

Mr J. Andreas Hoschtitzky is a consultant paediatric and adult cardiac surgeon at Royal Brompton Hospital.

He studied medicine at Leiden University in the Netherlands, graduating in 1994. He then did his postgraduate training in cardiac surgery in London, Bristol and Manchester with congenital cardiac fellowships in London at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

From 2010-17, he was a consultant adult congenital cardiac surgeon at Central Manchester University Hospitals and Manchester Children’s Foundation Trust. He was the clinical lead at the northwest regional adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) service in Manchester and served as an educational and clinical supervisor. While in that role, he set up the regional extended septal myectomy programme for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and was one of only a few surgeons in Europe performing valve repairs of all four heart valves including Ebstein’s anomaly.

From 2010-17, he worked as a paediatric cardiac surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, before joining Royal Brompton Hospital in 2017.

Research

Mr J. Andreas Hoschtitzky has many areas of interest within cardiac surgery, such as:

• the long-term outcomes after surgery for patients with congenital heart defects
• improving and innovating re-operative surgery strategies
• complex valve and aortic root problems
• the effects of surgery in Tetralogy of Fallot and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy on the ventricles, concerning heart failure and arrhythmia modifications