“Illness is not primarily a problem — it is a task, a challenge that demands a solution!”
Dr. Nándor Szegedi is a cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the Városmajor Heart and Vascular Center. His specialty is the catheter-based treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, though he is proficient in virtually all core areas of cardiology, including the management of high blood pressure, pacemaker therapy, and heart failure. He is a young specialist who, as he puts it, absorbed innovation with his mother’s milk. He has always wanted to know what new possibilities exist to help patients as quickly and effectively as possible — supported in this by Professors Béla Merkely and László Gellér.

He has a continuous need for learning, and alongside his clinical work, he conducts research, teaches, and writes professional textbooks. The most exciting field for him is electrophysiology — which is why he chose the fastest-developing area of cardiology. He believes that wherever possible, preference should be given to causal therapy over long-term medication, particularly given that cardiovascular symptoms are increasingly appearing in younger and younger patients. With timely diagnosis — and surgical intervention when necessary — symptoms can often be completely eliminated without medication. In cases where ongoing pharmacological treatment is required, he follows the most current clinical guidelines as his authoritative reference.

In arrhythmia management, catheter ablation is today’s most effective therapy, enabling long-term freedom from arrhythmia and significantly improved quality of life for the majority of patients. He advocates tirelessly for patients to be referred to arrhythmia specialists as early as possible, as this directly determines the success and effectiveness of their care. As a champion of innovation, he applies the latest and most effective technologies in treating his patients — such as zero-fluoroscopy ablation, which eliminates radiation exposure. He also considers the widespread adoption of smartwatches in outpatient diagnostics to be extremely valuable, as they make it possible to detect arrhythmias that occur relatively infrequently or are too brief to capture by conventional means.

He is President of the Young Cardiologists Committee of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology, a first and co-author of multiple published articles, and a contributor to university study materials. And what matters most to him in his work: to know everything happening in medical science, so that he can offer up-to-date solutions to every patient who comes to him.