Dr Puntmann is a board-certified cardiologist and physician. She specialises in early recognition and treatment of heart conditions that may lead to heart failure. She is worldwide renowned expert in inflammatory cardiomyopathies (COVID-19, viral myocarditis, cardio-oncology, cardio-HIV and cardio-lupus), as well as hypertrophic and hypertensive heart disease. She is passionate about the dedicated interdisciplinary cardiac care of patients with chronic conditions, such as systemic lupus erythematosus or post-COVID syndromes.

Special Interests

Women's Heart

Long COVID & Heart

Myocarditis and DCM

Cardio-Oncology

Cardio-Rheumatology

Hypertension and Hypertrophy

Cardiac Diagnostics

Dr Puntmann is an expert in non-invasive cardiac imaging. She holds accreditations in echocardiography (BSE, EACVI TTE), cardiac CT (SCCT level II) and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (EuroCMR and SCMR level III). She personally supervises the conduct of these investigations. Other investigations may include blood tests, ECG, exercise tolerance testing and lung function tests, as appropriate for the clinical question.

Cardiac MRI

Cardiac CT

Echocardiography