General info about Dr.Rolle and how to get evaluated

[Olga]

There is a link to Dr.Rolle's personal page at the cardio-thoracic surgeons network:
http://www.ctsnet.org/home/arolle
but you have to register first as a guest to see it

-This is the link to his hospital but it is in German:
http://www.recura-kliniken.de/kliniken/ ... startseite

-This is the link to the page with his pics and e-mail and phone #, he speaks Engl:
http://www.recura-kliniken.de/kliniken/ ... he-leitung

-This is a publication that descr. his technology among others:
http://journals.lww.com/jto/Fulltext/20 ... omy.6.aspx

-this is his best article:
http://jtcs.ctsnetjournals.org/cgi/cont ... 131/6/1236


He is usually agrees to pre-evaluate the patient based on the clinical history plus couple of recent chest CT scans, he speaks and reads Engl very well. It is better to contact him by the e-mail with the short description of the situation first clearly stating the following:
1. The name of the patient.
2. The age of the patient.
3. When was Dx, at what stage (primary only and where or metastases too and where).
4. What treatment was done - primary resected or not, metastases treated or not, chemotherapy or not.
5. Is the patient now on treatment or clinical trial.
6. General health/other health conditions/able to travel.
7. Lung metastases situation (number, bilateral, sizes, local docs opinion on resectability).
He would review this info and let you know if the patient looks like the potential candidate for his surgery. After that you will be required to send a CD disk by the courier with few consecutive chest CT scans (last one being done recently) and the page with the same patient info that above but probably more detailed, he will review the scans and let you know if he takes the patient and when is the soonest opening. Sometimes he can recommend to wait for awhile to see if there are more mets surfacing as they grow bigger and became visible on the CT scans.

If the answer is yes, there is a patient coordinator that will be put in contact with you to explain the details. In general, you book the flights to Dresden via Frankfurt, then taxi to hospital and they book you in the room. The the patient has a full day of the tests and if he passes them, the next day is the day of surgery, following few days at the ICU and about 10 days at the surgery recovery floor. Then you can fly home or stay in Dresden for awhile. You can request an assistance at the airport of Frankfurt to be provided with the electrical car transportation trough the customs etc. as the walk is long there. The assistance is requested at the time of the check in at the Dresden airport.