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Department of Internal Medicine III and Clinics (Nephrology/Rheumatology, Kidney Transplantation, Endocrinology/Diabetology Section)

Medical Director: Prof. Dr. Rolf A. K. Stahl
Head of Endocrinology/Diabetology Section: Prof. Dr. Frank-Ulrich Beil
Vice Medical Director: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Thaiss
Director of Nursing: Alexander Baaß
Managing Director: Dr. Michael Moormann

The Department

Our department treats primarily patients with renal or rheumatic disease as well as metabolic and hormone disorders.  We are experts in the treatment of kidney-damaging diseases like hypertension or diabetes as well as treatment of patients with inflammatory kidney disease. Our department has a high performance dialysis unit. We provide pre- and postoperative care for patients with conventional kidney transplants and jointly with the Hepatobiliary  and Transplant  Surgery Department also for patients with combined kidney-pancreas or kidney-liver transplants.

Clinics

Experienced senior physicians offer several special clinics:

Research

Our primary goal is a better understanding of the development, course and regulation of inflammatory responses of the kidney. Furthermore, our department collaborates with other transplantation centers in several studies designed to help improve immunosuppressive drug therapy following kidney transplants.

Facts and figures

Our department has special experience - with the number of cases growing - in the evaluation of pre- and postoperative care of kidney transplants with living donors.

Department statistics (in 2007)

> 7,000 Dialyses
189 Kidney biopsies
103 Patients with acute kidney transplants
28 Patients with acute living kidney transplants
20 Dialyses possible at one time
2,513 Outpatients
2,423 Hospitalized patients
8.6 Average number of days in hospital
55 Beds 

Thirty doctors work in our department. Five of the 32 on our nursing staff have special advanced training in dialysis.

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