“The individual counselling and treatment of patients with vascular diseases based on the latest scientific findings and my many years of experience as a vascular specialist is particularly important to me.”
Dr. med. Stephan Mildner
Dr. med. Stephan Mildner has specialised in the field of vascular surgery with a focus on peripheral bypass surgery including hybrid interventions, carotid artery surgery, the creation of accesses for haemodialysis and the treatment of varicose veins.
After graduating in human medicine from the University of Rostock (Germany) in 1994, he completed his surgical training at the Klinikum Konstanz and the Schwarzwald-Baar-Klinikum Villingen-Schwenningen, both central and maximum care hospitals in Baden-Württemberg (Germany). As a specialist in surgery and vascular surgery, he was responsible for the care of patients with vascular diseases at Klinikum Konstanz from 2004 to 2020, first as a senior physician and later as a chief physician.
From 2015 to 2017, Dr. med. Mildner completed a part-time degree in health economics at the University of Nuremberg (Germany) and successfully graduated with a Master of Health Business Administration (MHBA).
Since January 2021, Dr. med. Mildner has been working in Switzerland as a vascular specialist, initially as a senior physician and from June 2022 as an independent attending physician at the Hirlsanden Klinik Beau-Site in Bern. At the beginning of 2024, Dr. med. Mildner shifted his focus of activity to Lucerne, where he became part of LUVAS – Vascular Surgery Lucerne and an independent attending physician at the Hirslanden Klinik St. Anna.
- Specialist Vascular Surgery FMH
- Fellow of the European Board of Vascular Surgery (FEBVS)
- Specialist for Surgery FMH
- Endovascular Surgeon DGG
- Certificate of Achievement in Endovenous Thermal Ablation of Saphenous Veins (USGG)
- Master of Health Business Administration
- Peripheral bypass surgery (femoral-popliteal/femoral-crural) for the treatment of intermittent claudication and the treatment of critical ischemia
- Treatment and prevention of stroke through thromboendarterectomy of the carotid artery (carotid TEA)
- Conventional open and endovascular elimination of peripheral vasodilation (iliac and popliteal aneurysms)
- Conventional open and endovascular treatment of diseases of the aorta (main artery) in vasodilation (aneurysms) or occlusions
- Hybrid operations in the pelvic leg area (thromboendarterectomy of the femoral artery + stent implantation)
- The entire spectrum of treatment of varicose veins: from classical surgery to endoluminal, minimally invasive sclerotherapy procedures (laser or radiofrequency ablation), especially for relapse situations (after initial treatment) and treatment of chronic congestion wounds (leg ulcers)
- Sclerotherapy of varicose veins (in combination with varicose treatment or as an individual treatment)
- Implantation, care and revision of dialysis access (arteriovenous fistula and arteriovenous shunt), as well as implantation of vascular catheters
