Centre for Internal Medicine Clinic for Kidney, Hypertension and Autoimmune Diseases

• Diagnosis and treatment of patients suffering from
  • renal diseases
  • complicated hypertension
  • renal diseases in systemic diseases
• Diagnosis and treatment of dialysis patients with vascular diseases
• Intensive care management of patients with acute renal failure and multiple organ failure
• Intensive care management of dialysis patients with severe diseases
• Renal ultrasonography, duplex ultrasonography 
• Performance of all extracorporeal procedures such as haemodialysis, haemofiltration, Genius procedure, plasmapheresis, immunoadsorption
• Training for carrying out peritoneal dialysis independently 
• Diagnosis and treatment of patients with acute poisoning including haemoperfusion treatment
• Kidney transplants

• Transplant outpatient clinic
• Outpatient haemodialysis
• Outpatient peritoneal dialysis
• Outpatient plasmapheresis and immunoadsorption
• Case Management

Transplant Centre Stuttgart
www.transplantationszentrum-stuttgart.de

• AB0-incompatible living kidney transplantation
• Living kidney transplantation in case of positive crossmatch
• Kidney transplantation in HIV-positive patients
• High cut-off dialysis for removal of immunoglobulin light chains
• Transjugular renal biopsy, in collaboration with the Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Prof. Dr. Richter
• Renal denervation for treatment of therapy-resistent hypertension, in cooperation with the Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Prof. Dr. Richter

• Eurotransplant senior DR-compatible study
• Biomarker in renal transplantation; several studies in cooperation with Prof Dr. E. Wieland and Dr. M. Shipkova; such as:
  • Associations among CD26 Expression on T cells, plasma dipetidyl peptidase IV Activity and Clinical Outcomes in the early phase after kidney transplantation 
  • Indicators of inflammation and oxidized low density lipoproteins in kidney transplant recipients with and without metabolic syndrome
• Chairmanship commission for development of standards for the „special extracorporal therapy“ by order of the German Association for Internal Medicine

• Collaborative Transplant Study: Worldwide comparison of the results of kidney transplantation since 1997.In Stuttgart, functional duration of renal transplants and life expectancy of renal transplantation patients were above average.
• Annual quality report on kidney transplantation to the Social Ministry of Baden-Württemberg
• Quality assurance in the context of the Eurotransplant Foundation 
• Annual report to AQUA Institution in the context of quality assurance for transplantation centres
• Certified clinic with focus on nephrology