Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

Located in the heart of the Lake Geneva "Health Valley", CHUV is one of Switzerland's five university hospitals and one of the ten best in the world. CHUV service hospital plays a leading role in the fields of medical care, research and training, thanks to its collaboration with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), as well as further collaborations within Switzerland and abroad. Its annual budget is 2 billion/y, with 11.000 employees, and 51.000 patients hospitalized yearly. The hospital provides a wide range of health services across a broad range of specialties. Cardiovascular diseases together with oncology, neuroscience, immunology, genomic medicine, nutrition and metabolism have been identified among several priority areas in which the CHUV is actively working to promote health, teaching and research. The Arrhythmia Unit of CHUV performs complex catheter ablation procedures daily, including epicardial ablation for specific ventricular arrhythmogenic disorders such as in inflammatory cardiomyopathy and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.

The CHUV Service of Cardiology, in collaboration with the CHUV Department of Radio-oncology, first developed the STAR treatment and has been involved in all steps of this complex procedure. CHUV is one of the few centres world-wide with extensive experience in STAR treatment of VTs. More than 30 patients have been treated so far. This makes CHUV one of the centres with the greatest experience in STAR within the STOPSTORM consortium.