Dr. Eitan Heldenberg, Vascular Surgeon, Vascular Specialist

Dr. Heldenberg graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, with honors, in 1993. He spent his internship year as well as his years of specialization in general surgery and vascular surgery at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. Having finished his internship, he trained in endovascular surgery in London’s St. Mary’s Hospital. Upon his return to Israel, he worked as a senior vascular surgeon at the Sheba Medical Center.

Between 2008-2010 he worked as a senior vascular surgeon at the Tel-Aviv Medical Center.

Between the years 2010 and 2019, he worked at the Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center, Assaf Harofeh Campus, managing the outpatient clinic system and the Vascular Institute, and from 2015 he managed the Department of Vascular Surgery at the Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center, Assaf Harofeh Campus.

Between September 2019 to December 2023, he served as the director of the Department of Vascular Surgery at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center.

Dr. Heldenberg engages in extensive academic activity that includes writing articles, which were published in the best global medical magazines.

Dr. Eitan Heldenberg is a member of a variety of professional associations

Participation as Lecturer at Scientific Conferences

Participation as Lecturer at Scientific Conferences

1. Heldenberg E, Vishna T., Onaka N., Dreznik Z.

“The importance of the colo-rectal unit in the preservation of the anal sphincter, in patients

suffering from rectal cancer.”

The 21^st bi-annual conference of the Israel Surgeon’s Association, Haifa, 1999

2. Heldenberg E., Vishna T., Onka N., Dreznik Z.

“Predictive factors for recurrence and mortality of rectal carcinoma.”

The 21^st bi-annual conference of the Israel Surgeon’s Association, Haifa, 1999.

3. Heldenberg E., Plei M., Siemanski D., Yelin A.

“Isolated injury to the bronchi, secondary to blunt trauma in childhood”

The 21^st bi-annual conference of the Israel Surgeon’s Association, Haifa, 1999

4. Heldenberg E., Segal E., Pearl A.

“Bicarbonate use in severe metabolic acidosis. What is the appropriate dose?”

5^th World Congress on Trauma, Shock, Inflammation and Sepsis – Pathophysiology, Immune

Consequences and Therapy.  Munich Germany, 2000

5. Heldenberg E., Kluger Y., Simon D., Schwartz A., Blumenfeld A., Segal E.

“Penetrating injuries to the carotid artery – multi-center experience”.

The annual conference of the Israeli Trauma Society, Tel-Aviv, April 2003.

6. Heldenberg E., Kluger Y., Simon D., Schwartz A., Blumenfeld A., Segal E.

“Penetrating injuries to the carotid artery – multi-center experience”.

The 23^rd bi-annual conference of the Israel Surgeon’s Association, Dead Sea, 2003.

7. Heldenberg E

”Leiomyosarcoma of the Inferior Vena Cava – a case presentation”.

The 23^rd bi-annual conference of the Israel Surgeon’s Association, Dead Sea, 2003

8. Heldenberg E.

“Hyperperfusion Syndrome following carotid artery revascularization procedures”.

The Israeli association of vascular surgery meeting, April 2003.

9. Heldenberg E.

“The current approach to penetrating abdominal aortic trauma”

The 17^th annual conference of the Israeli Trauma Society, Herzeliya, September 2005.

10. Heldenberg E, Hammady M, Cheshire N.

“Left Subclavian Artery coverage during Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair – to do or not

do?”

The Israeli Vascular and Endovascular surgery 5^th annual meeting, May 2008.

11. Heldenberg E.

“Medtronic Endurant Stent Graft – The TASMC experience”.

The Israeli Vascular and Endovascular surgery 6^th annual meeting, May 2009.

12. Heldenberg E.

“Renal artery trauma – proposed guidelines for management”

The Israeli trauma forum academic meeting, December 2009.

13. Heldenberg E, Peleg K, Givon A, Daniel Simon, Gidon Almogy, ITG*, Arie Bass

“Venous trauma in the terrorism era”

The European Venous Forum, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2011.

14. Heldenberg E, Peleg K, Givon A, Daniel Simon, Gidon Almogy, ITG*, Arie Bass

“Vascular trauma in terror attacks – new challenges for the vascular surgeon.

The Veith 38^th Symposium, New York, November 2011.

15. Heldenberg E, Peleg K, Givon A, Daniel Simon, Gidon Almogy, ITG*, Arie Bass

“Vascular trauma in terror attacks – lessons to be learned”.

The Israeli Vascular and Endovascular surgery, 9^th annual meeting, May 2012.

16. Heldenberg E.

“Big red – Big blue operation”, abdominal vascular trauma.

The vascular society of Great Britain and Ireland annual meeting, November 2015 – Invited

Speaker.

17. Heldenberg E.

3^rd Edition of World Congress & Exhibition on Vascular Surgery. London, May 24-25,

2018. Organizing committee member.

Reviewer for

Minerva Chirurgica.

World Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery.

Israeli Medical Association Journal.

Journal of military medicine.

Israeli Journal of Military Medicine.

Journal of Endovascular Trauma management.

Published articles

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1. Heldenberg D, Wagner Y, Heldenberg E, Keren S, Auslaender L, Kaufshtein M,

Tenenbaum G.

The role of Helicobacter pylori in children with recurrent abdominal pain.
Am J Gastroenterol. 1995;90(6):906-9.

2. Steingart RA, Heldenberg E, Pinhasov A, Brennman DE, Fridkin M, Gozes I

A vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor analog alters the expression of homeobox genes.
Life Sci. 2002 Oct 11; 71(21):2543-52.

3. Heldenberg E, Vishne TH, Onaka N, Dreznik Z

Rectal cancer: the impact of a colorectal unit on the preservation of the anal sphincter.

Isr Med Assoc J. 2004 Aug; 6(8):471-3.

4. Schneiderman J, Feinberg MS, Schwamental E, Tenenbaum A, Garniek A, Morag B,

Walden R, Heldenberg E, Fenigstein H, Adar R.

Protruding aortic arch thrombus: treatment with minimally invasive surgical approach.

J Vasc Surg. 2004 Dec; 40(6):1083-8.

5. Heldenberg E , Vishne TH, Pley M, Simansky D, Rafaeli Y, Binun A, Saute M, Yellin A

Major Bronchial Trauma in the Pediatric Age Group.

World J Surg. 2005 Jan 20.

6. Marmor M, Goldstein L, Levi Y, Onn E, Blumenfeld A, Kosashvili Y, Levy G, Hirschorn G,

Heldenberg E, Or J, Setton E, Goldberg A, Bar- Dayan Y.

Mass medical repatriation of injured civilians after terrorist attack in Mombasa, Kenya:

Medical needs, resources used and lessons learned.

Prehospital Disaster Med. 2005 Mar-Apr; 20(2):98-102.

7. Rimon U, Heldenberg E, Golan G, Shinfeld A, Garniek A

Amplatzer Vascular Plug: Expending the application spectrum.

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 2008;31:S84-87.

8. Mayevsky A, Walden R, Pewzner E, Deutch A, Heldenberg E, Lavee J, Taagar S,Kachel E,

Raanani E, Preisman S, Glauber V, Segal E.  Mitochondrial function and tissue vitality: bench-

to-bedside realptime optical monitoring system.

J Biomed Opt. 2011 jun; 16(6).

9. Abbott AL, Adelman MA, Alexandrov AV, Barnett HJ, Beard J, Bell P, Björck M, Blacker D,

Buckley CJ, Cambria RP, Comerota AJ, Sander Connolly E, Davies AH, Eckstein HH, Faruqi

R, Fraedrich G, Gloviczki P, Hankey GJ, Harbaugh RE, Heldenberg E, Kittner SJ, Kleinig

TJ, Mikhailidis DP, Moore WS, Naylor R, Nicolaides A, Paraskevas KI, Pelz DM, Prichard

JW, Purdie G, Ricco JB, Riles T, Rothwell P, Sandercock P, Sillesen H, David Spence J,

Spinelli F, Tan A, Thapar A, Veith FJ, Zhou W. Why the United States Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) should not extend Reimbursement indications for carotid artery angioplasty/stenting.

Brain and Behavior 2012;2:200-207.

10. Abbott AL, Adelman MA, Alexandrov AV, Barnett HJ, Beard J, Bell P, Björck M, Blacker D, Buckley CJ, Cambria RP, Comerota AJ, Sander Connolly E, Davies AH, Eckstein HH, Faruqi R, Fraedrich G, Gloviczki P, Hankey GJ, Harbaugh RE, Heldenberg E, Kittner SJ, Kleinig TJ, Mikhailidis DP, Moore WS, Naylor R, Nicolaides A, Paraskevas KI, Pelz DM, Prichard JW, Purdie G, Ricco JB, Riles T, Rothwell P, Sandercock P, Sillesen H, David Spence J, Spinelli F, Tan A, Thapar A, Veith FJ, Zhou W.  Why the United States Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) should not extend Reimbursement indications for carotid artery angioplasty/stenting.

Int Angiol. 2012;31(1):85-89.

11. Abbott AL, Adelman MA, Alexandrov AV, Barnett HJ, Beard J, Bell P, Björck M, Blacker

D, Buckley CJ, Cambria RP, Comerota AJ, Sander Connolly E, Davies AH, Eckstein HH,

Faruqi R, Fraedrich G, Gloviczki P, Hankey GJ, Harbaugh RE, Heldenberg E, Kittner SJ,

Kleinig TJ, Mikhailidis DP, Moore WS, Naylor R, Nicolaides A, Paraskevas KI, Pelz DM,

Prichard JW, Purdie G, Ricco JB, Riles T, Rothwell P, Sandercock P, Sillesen H, David

Spence J, Spinelli F, Tan A, Thapar A, Veith FJ, Zhou W.

Why the United States Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) should not extend

Reimbursement indications for carotid artery angioplasty/stenting.

Vascular 2012;20(1):1-7.

12. Abbott AL, Adelman MA, Alexandrov AV, Barnett HJ, Beard J, Bell P, Björck M, Blacker D,

Buckley CJ, Cambria RP, Comerota AJ, Sander Connolly E, Davies AH, Eckstein HH, Faruqi

R, Fraedrich G, Gloviczki P, Hankey GJ, Harbaugh RE, Heldenberg E, Kittner SJ, Kleinig

TJ, Mikhailidis DP, Moore WS, Naylor R, Nicolaides A, Paraskevas KI, Pelz DM, Prichard

JW, Purdie G, Ricco JB, Riles T, Rothwell P, Sandercock P, Sillesen H, David Spence J,

Spinelli F, Tan A, Thapar A, Veith FJ, Zhou W.

Why the United States Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) should not extend

Reimbursement indications for carotid artery angioplasty/stenting.

Angiology 2012;63(8):639-44.

13. Abbott AL, Adelman MA, Alexandrov AV, Barnett HJ, Beard J, Bell P, Björck M, Blacker D,

Buckley CJ, Cambria RP, Comerota AJ, Sander Connolly E, Davies AH, Eckstein HH, Faruqi

R, Fraedrich G, Gloviczki P, Hankey GJ, Harbaugh RE, Heldenberg E, Kittner SJ, Kleinig

TJ, Mikhailidis DP, Moore WS, Naylor R, Nicolaides A, Paraskevas KI, Pelz DM, Prichard

JW, Purdie G, Ricco JB, Riles T, Rothwell P, Sandercock P, Sillesen H, David Spence J,

Spinelli F, Tan A, Thapar A, Veith FJ, Zhou W.

Why the United States Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) should not extend

Reimbursement indications for carotid artery angioplasty/stenting.

Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2012;43(3):247-251.

14. Anne L. Abbott, Mark A. Adelman, Andrei V. Alexandrov, P. Alan Barber, Henry J.M.

Barnett, Jonathan Beard, Peter Bell, Martin Björck, David Blacker, Leo H. Bonati’, Martin M.

Brown, Clifford J. Buckley, Richard P. Cambria,  John E. Castaldo, Anthony J. Comerota, E.

Sander Connolly, Jr, Ronald L. Dalman, Alun H. Davies, Hans Henning Eckstein, Rishad

Faruqi, Thomas E. Feasby, Gustav Fraedrich, Peter Gloviczki, Graeme J. Hankey, Robert E.

Harbaugh, Eitan Heldenberg, Michael G. Hennerici, Michael D. Hill, Timothy J. Kleinig,

Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, Wesley S. Moore, Ross Naylor, Andrew Nicolaides, Kosmas I.

Paraskevas, David M. Pelz, James W. Prichard, Grant Purdie, Jean Baptiste Ricco, Peter A.

Ringleb, Thomas Riles, Peter M. Rothwell, Peter Sandercock, Henrik Sillesen, J. David

Spence, Francesco Spinelli, Jonathon Sturm, Aaron Tan, Ankur Thapar, Frank J. Veith,

Tissa Wijeratne, Wei Zhou.

Why Calls for More Routine Carotid Stenting Are Currently Inappropriate. An International,

Multispecialty, Expert Review and Position Statement.

Stroke. 2013;44:1186-1190.

15. Heldenberg E, Aharony S, Vishne T, Wolf T.

Evaluation of tourniquet efficacy in the treatment of extremity injuries: Comparison Between

an improvised tourniquet, Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT) and Special Operations

Tactical Tourniquet (SOFTT).

Disaster and Military Medicine, 2015,1:1-7.

16. Heldenberg E, Givon A,  Simon D, Bass A ,  Almogy A, Peleg K.

Terror attacks increases the risk of vascular injuries.

Frontiers in public health / Disaster and Emergenc medicine 2014;2:1-5.

17. Heldenberg E, Givon  A, Simon D, Bass A, Almogy G, ITG*, Peleg K.

Civilian causalities of terror related explosions: The impact of vascular trauma on treatment

and prognosis.

Journal of Trauma and acute care surgery 2016;81(3), 435-440.

18. Feldman L, Beberashvili I ,Abu Tair A, Efrati S, Gorelik O, Wasser WG,

Heldenberg E, Rabin I.

Effect of hemodialysis access blood flow on cardiac events after coronary artery bypass

grafting using an internal thoracic artery.

J Vasc Access 2017; 18 (4): 301-306.

19. Kzurer N, Heldenberg E^*, Farah N, Ivzan N, Mandel Y.      (* – equal contribution).

Endovascular electrical stimulation – a novel hemorrhage control technique.

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

Published on 01 Jan 2018, doi:10.1109/TBME.2018.2883212

20. Heldenberg E, Abu Tir A, Bass A.

Distaflo bypass for infrageniculate disease, is it really the ultimate solution we have

prayed for?

Submitted to the IMAJ.

21. Heldenberg E, Lorber J, Wolkov O, Carmi O N, Cohenpour M,  Bass A, Golan H.

Gallium⁶⁷ SPECT CT as a useful modality for vascular graft infection diagnosis.

Submitted to Clinical Nuclear Medicine.

22. Heldenberg E, Perelstein O, Bass A.

Is vein conduit for infrageniculate bypass graft is always the best choice for all patients?

Submitted to the Annals of Vascular Surgery.

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1. Gayer G, Zissin R, Apter S, Shemesh E, Heldenberg E

Acute diverticulitis of the small bowel: CT findings.
Abdom Imaging. 1999 Sep-Oct; 24(5):452-5.

2. Portnoy O, Gayer G, Onaca N, Heldenberg E, Apter S

Abdominal computerized tomography in the diagnosis of Meckel’s diverticulitis in the

adult.
Isr Med Assoc J. 2001;3(12):982-3.

3. Dotan ZA, Laufer M, Heldenberg E, Langevitz P, Fridman P, Duvdevani M, Ramon J.

Isolated testicular PolyArteritis Nodosa mimicking testicular neoplasm – long – term

Follow up.

Urology 2003 Aug; 62(2):352.

4. Heldenberg E, Rabin I, Cheyn D, Lorber J, Elkabetz E, Sandbank J, Bass A.

Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma as a rare cause of blue toe syndrome.

J Vasc Surg 2011; 54:854-856.

5. Heldenberg E, Peer A, Zaretzki M, Rabin I, Bass A.

Extrinsic band as an unusual cause of an intermittent graft obstruction.

Europ J of Vasc Endovasc Surg Extra (2011) 22, 9-11.

6. Halak M, Heldenberg E, Silverberg D, Schenaiderman J.

Clostridum septicum post-endovascular aneurysm repair stent-graft infection.

Vascular, 2012;20(2):104-106.

7. Heldenberg E, Bass A

Retinal Hemorrhage as a unique ophthalmic manifestation of Cerebral Hyper perfusion

Syndrome.

World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases 2013;3(4):336-338.

8. Heldenberg E, Lorber J, Cheyn D, Bass A.

Trans Iliac Wing Alternate Route Bypass for infected groin vascular graft.

J Vasc Surg 2014;60(2):504-505.

9. Heldenberg E, Karplus R, Peer A, Bass A.

Mycotic Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm secondary to Coxiella Burnetii infection (Q fever)

combined with bilateral iliac arteries occlusion treated by retrograde deployment of

endovascular prosthesis.

IMAJ 2015;17:385-386.

10. Galili O, Hebron D, DuBose J, Hörer MT, Heldenberg E, Gefen S, Kessel B.

Use of Endovascular Balloons may Simplify Proximal and Distal Control in Complicated

Vascular Trauma.

J of Endo Vasc Trau Manege 2017;1(1), 39-41.

11. Weiner Y, Tomashev R, Neeman O, Itzhakov Z, Heldenberg E, Melcer Y, Maymon R.

Splenic artery aneurysm during pregnancy: An obstetric nightmare.

Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2019 Jun; 237:121-125.

doi: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2019.04.029.

12. Hebron D, Galili O, Kessel B, Zoarets I, Klein Y, Assif A, Heldenberg E.

Venous chimney procedure – A novel technical solution to prevent iatrogenic Budd-Chiari

Syndrome following retrohepatic vena cava injury. J of Endo Vasc Trau manege

2020;4(2);126-130.

Reviews

1. Clough R, Heldenberg E, Hamady M, Cheshire NJ

Coverage of the Left Subclavian Artery during Thoracic Aortic Stent Grafting: How to