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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. Sigrid Harendza
Director of Nursing: Sonja Spahl
Managing Director: Ottmar Heesen

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:

• Glomerulonephritis clinic (inflammatory kidney disease) 
• Hypertension clinic 
• Kidney transplantation clinic 
• Endocrinology clinic (diabetes mellitus, thyroid, obesity)

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 2010)

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