Our Staff

Supercharging our Patients’ Treatment Results with Health Coaching and Clinical Nutrition Supervision

Markus Klotz, our Co-founder and managing director talks with our two ‘Superwomen’:

 Our Health Coach Tanja Walser, who will guide you through your entire recovery journey from A to Z, making sure that every bit of it is optimised and effortless – full support from someone who knows and has been there – a recovered expert patient and Health Coach at your side all the time! 

 Our Clinical Director and Nutritionist Chryso Zorbas, from whom you will receive full clinical nutritional supervision from day one, even before you arrive at the clinic – because any food you put into your body is essentially information – getting this part and the supplements right is a huge bonus to your treatment outcome, especially as she is also our Clinical Director and directly involved with our medical team! 

Our Long Covid and Post Vac Story – a look into the past, present and future with Markus Klotz – our Co-founder and Managing Director

Long Covid, Post Vac Syndrome and Chronic Illnesses – it is never easy to find one’s right road to recovery. But with a little help it is definitely much easier. Markus talks about what we have learned from clinical experience in the last two years and what his personal advice is, if you are looking for the right treatment form.

Mehr Videos mit Markus: 

Interview with Markus in the ARTE TV documentary ‘Long Covid Healing in Cyprus’

Gez Medinger und Markus Klotz im Gespräch darüber, warum die Kombinationstherapie für jeden Patienten individuell angepasst werden muss

Markus bei ITV News und France 2

Interviews Markus Klotz Radio Italiana Florida

A tour through our clinic with Constantinos Georgiou – our Center Manager and Co-founder

Constantinos’ family has grown substantially the last two years. He keeps ‘adopting’ patients. He is the person helping you with everything in the clinic and on the island to make you feel at home.

Und wenn alle Behandlungsschichten beendet sind, sorgt er dafür, dass uns nie die Vorräte ausgehen und die ganze Klinik wie ein Schweizer Uhrwerk läuft.

Unsere Mitgründerin Silke Fischer, H.E.L.P. , Expertin für technische Anwendungen der Apherese, über verschiedene Aphereseformen und die Vorteile der Kombinationstherapie

Silke Fischer verfügt über jahrzehntelange Erfahrung auf dem Gebiet der Apherese und hat unzählige Ärzte und Krankenschwestern ausgebildet. Sie hat internationale Apherese-Behandlungsstandards entwickelt und verfügt über Erfahrung in der Entwicklung der Apherese-Technologie. Sie gibt uns einen Überblick über die bestehenden Aphereseformen und ihre Anwendung bei chronischen Erkrankungen mit Mikrozirkulationsproblemen und erklärt, warum einige Aphereseformen, wie z. B. die H.E.L.P. Apherese, bei diesen Erkrankungen besser funktionieren als andere und warum die Kombinationstherapie mit der H.E.L.P. Apherese bessere Ergebnisse gezeigt hat als die alleinige Anwendung. Drücken Sie CC für englische Untertitel. 

Clinical Experience, Combination Therapy with Help Apheresis and our patients – a talk with our medical director and chief physician, Dr. Irina Pavlik Marangos

Dr. Irina as she is affectionately called by our patients and nurses has been working in research in the University Hospital Oslo for almost a decade before she decided to come back to the frontline. After having treated chronic illness sufferers for many years, there is only few symptoms and medical issues she has not come across in this field – one of the reasons no patient ever gets a questioning look from her. Only if someone under her care does not follow her doctor’s advice she will go in no time from soft as silk to pragmatic! One of her biggest strengths is to talk to patients in a non-medical language that makes everyone understand their treatment effortlessly.

Unsere klinische Direktorin Chryso Zorbas spricht darüber, wie wir unsere Patienten am besten versorgen und welche Erfahrungen sie als klinische Ernährungsberaterin gemacht hat

Unsere klinische Leiterin Chryso Zorbas und Mitgründer Markus sprechen kurz darüber, wie sie die beste Betreuung und Behandlung für unsere Patienten sicherstellt, was sie in unserer Klinik erwarten können und welche wichtige Rolle die klinische Ernährung vor, während und nach den Behandlungen spielt. Eine erfahrene Managerin UND Expertin für klinische Ernährung wie Chryso in unserem Team zu haben, hilft uns, die bereits hohen Standards und Erfolgsquoten noch weiter nach oben zu bringen. Denn jeder kleine Schritt auf der Leiter der Genesung ist wichtig. 

Gez Medinger und Markus Klotz über individuelle Kombinationstherapie

 In this talk science journalist Gez Medinger and our co-founder Markus Klotz talk about their own Long Covid journeys and why they both came to the conclusion that Combination Therapy for Long Covid needs to be individualised for every single one of us. Back in early 2021 when Markus simply did not recover, but got worse and worse after his first Covid infection it was Gez’ Youtube videos that made him understand that what he was suffering from was Long Covid. Like him, many have benefitted from Gez’ work. During his stay at our clinic, he and Markus took some time and shared some insights they both learned over the last two years. 

Unsere medizinische Direktorin Dr. Irina Pavlik Marangos in einem Interview mit der Long Covid Apheresis Community

Quote from the Long Covid Apheresis Community: Dr. Irina Pavlik Marangos has vast experience in treating Long Covid and Post Vac, but also Lyme and MECFS, as well as other Post Viral Syndromes. A lot of insights and news which she shared with us – treatment modalities, Combination Therapy updates and new results and much more.
She only had one condition for giving an interview – keep it short and simple, otherwise our patients do not benefit from our talk. She truly understands how decreased cognitive function can affect us!
No wonder all our community members that were treated by her call her affectionately ‘Dr. Irina’!’

Unser Mitgründer Markus Klotz und unsere medizinische Beraterin Dr. Beate Jaeger in einem Interview mit der Long Covid Apheresis Community

Quote from the Long Covid Apheresis Community: ‘Our expert interview with Dr. Beate Jaeger and Markus Klotz who were two of the first people who started to work tirelessly for us Long Covid, Post Vac Syndrome and Chronic Illness sufferers..they have treated hundreds of patients successfully.’

Unser medizinischer Berater Dr. Gustavo Aguirre-Chang in einem Interview mit der Long Covid Apheresis Community

Quote from the Long Covid Apheresis Community: ‘Dr. Gustavo Aguirre-Chang, inventor of the Microclots Indication Test – HHMS Test has been one of the first clinicians actively researching Long Covid and Post Vac and helped thousands with his protocols. He is a medical advisor to the Apheresis Center, a leading international Long Covid and Post Vac clinic and has been a part of the team that invented the ‘Cyprus Protocol’ – the first Combination Therapy protocol for Long Covid and Post Vac. In his presentation/interview he shares some of his latest insights with us and answers questions our community members had.’

A conversation with our patients’ carers and their valuable tips

English subtitles are available for this video, just press the CC button and choose ‘English’.

Or co-founder Markus met up with some of our patients’ caregivers in the reception/lobby and they had a spontaneous talk about how to overcome anxiety, how to make travelling as easy as possible and they also share their experience at the clinic and Larnaca in general.

Ein kurzes Gespräch in unserem Behandlungsraum mit Jenni aus Deutschland

We took a moment and had a short chat with one of our patients from Germany, Jenni about her early treatment progress. And being a German clinic – of course in German! (click subtitles for English).

Two weeks later we had another longer chat with her about her recovery which you will find here

Für Erfahrungsberichte von Patienten (Videos) klicken Sie hier

H.E.L.P. Apherese für die Behandlung von Long Covid Video

H.E.L.P. Apheresis – How does it work? A simplified (non-medical) explanation. 

Unser Patient Jeremy hat uns erlaubt, seine H.E.L.P. Apherese-Behandlung Nr.8 zu filmen, damit die Leute einen detaillierten Blick darauf werfen können, bevor sie sich selbst der Behandlung unterziehen. Wir haben versucht, die Dinge sehr vereinfacht und in leicht verständlicher Form zu erklären und haben dafür ein wenig von der medizinischen und wissenschaftlichen Präzision geopfert, damit es leichter zu verstehen/zu sehen ist.

You find Jeremy’s interview about his treatment experience click here to see

Video zum Katheterzugang

H.E.L.P. Apherese mit Beinkatheterzugang

Our patient Stephen allowed us to film his H.E.L.P. Apheresis treatment, so that people can get an insight on how the treatment works with the use of a catheter (a special apheresis catheter is used if you have very small veins, bad/affected veins that make them inaccessible with apheresis needles, or in some cases if your apheresis needles keep getting blocked). You can find more information on catheters at the bottom of the in the FAQ section here

H.E.L.P. Video zur Vorbereitung des Apheresegeräts und zur Grundierung

Etwa eine Stunde vor der Behandlung müssen die 30 Kilogramm Flüssigkeiten (NaCl, Acetat, Bicarbonat, Heparansulfat) sowie die Leitungen, Adsorber und Filter vorbereitet und angeschlossen werden. Dann muss die Plasmat Futura-Maschine gespült, getestet und vorbereitet werden und durchläuft mehrere mechanische Selbsttests, um festzustellen, ob alle Pumpen, Klemmen, Sensoren und die Elektronik zu 100 % korrekt arbeiten (dieser Vorgang wird als Priming bezeichnet).

ARTE TV-Dokumentation 'Long Covid - Heilung auf Zypern'

ARTE TV-Dokumentation 'Long Covid - Healing in Cyprus' über unser Apheresezentrum

Der Dokumentarfilm wurde im Juni 2024 ausgestrahlt. Ein Journalistenteam des europäischen Fernsehsenders ARTE TV begleitete drei unserer Patienten mit Long Covid und Post-Vac-Syndrom und interviewte sie und unser Team im Apheresezentrum. Hier können Sie sich einen Ausschnitt des Dokumentarfilms ansehen, der auch für Patienten mit kognitiver Dysfunktion, Hirnnebel und damit verbundener Migräne gut zu sehen ist. Englischer Ton von Dubly.

Seit den Dreharbeiten zu diesem Dokumentarfilm wurden neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse gewonnen; die neuesten veröffentlichten Studien finden Sie hier

Markus hat einen Blogbeitrag veröffentlicht hierveröffentlicht, in dem er die Entwicklungen und Aktualisierungen seit den Dreharbeiten zum Dokumentarfilm beschreibt.

Verena

Verena was first treated with an Immunoadsorption, then 5 H.E.L.P. Apheresis and at last with Combination Therapy with HBOT. The TV team documented her 2nd visit in Cyprus whilst she received her HBOT therapy. Our co-founder Markus talked to her after her H.E.L.P. Apheresis therapy, you can find their talk with her full experience here and her experience with our travel support team here

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Liz

Liz was treated with 9 H.E.L.P. Apheresis and Combination Therapy. The TV team documented her 2 month long stay at our clinic whilst she received her Combination Therapy with H.E.L.P. Apheresis, various IVs and anticoagulation therapy. Our co-founder Markus talked to her and her mum Amanda a few months after they returned home. You can find their talk with her full experience and treatment results achieved here and a short ‘BEFORE/AFTER Video’ here

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Markus und Constantinos

Unser Managementteam(das inzwischen gewachsen ist) wurde interviewt und Markus erzählte, wie und warum sie das Apheresezentrum aufgebaut haben. 

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Celine, the third patient who was interviewed and who is seen at the end of this short video excerpt, received 3 H.E.L.P. Apheresis treatments. As mentioned in the documentary’s broadcast, whilst her eyesight recovered through the treatments, she did not report other noticeable symptom changes. The journalists visited her in France.

Read updates: Markus has published a blog post here, where he describes the developments and updates since the documentary was filmed last fall.