University Hospital Düsseldorf
Dusseldorf, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. L. Christian Rump
Department of Nephrology
At the University Hospital Duesseldorf's Department of Nephrology, all acute and chronic kidney disease and all systemic diseases are treated with kidney involvement. The planning and preparation for a kidney transplant and its follow-up after successful kidney transplantation are the main focus of the clinic. The Nephrology department of the University Hospital Duesseldorf is a European Center of Excellence in the management of Hypertension. Their specialists are highly experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of primary, secondary and difficult-to-adjust arterial hypertension. The Department of Nephrology offers its patients and patients in other departments all types of diagnostics and treatments related to kidney diseases such as hemodialysis (blood washing), peritoneal dialysis and special procedures of blood plasma therapy (plasma exchange treatments, immunoadsorption, etc.).
In the field of treatment of patients with immunological and non-immunological systemic diseases, the clinic has developed into a supraregional center of excellence. Examples of this disease spectrum are vasculitis, i.e. immunologically mediated inflammation of small and medium blood vessels or amyloidosis, tissue damage that is characterized by the deposition of protein, especially in the kidney, but also in the heart and nerves. In addition, the clinic has supra-regional importance in the treatment of diabetic kidney disease.
A key task of the Department of Nephrology is the transplantation of kidneys. The kidney transplant center is led by Professor Rump. The 2018 newly-refurbished transplant station in the MNR building has excellent facilities that facilitate the care of newly transplanted patients. Due to the many years of experience of specialized doctors from the participating clinics for nephrology, vascular surgery and urology, the Kidney Transplant Program Duesseldorf has been one of the largest in Germany for many years. The aftercare of kidney transplant patients is an important part of the department’s work. They also offer services in the prevention of kidney diseases and the management of chronic kidney diseases.
The Department of Nephrology at the University Hospital Duesseldorf specializes in:
- Care of patients before and after organ transplants (transplants)
- Blood washing (dialysis)
- kidney transplant
- Ultrasound diagnosis
- Examination and treatment of hypertension
- Examination and treatment of kidney failure
- Examination and treatment of other diseases of the kidney and the ureter
- Investigation and treatment of hormone-related nutritional and metabolic diseases, eg. B. diabetes, thyroid diseases
- Examination and treatment of infectious diseases of the kidney, eg caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites
- Examination and treatment of autoimmune diseases of the kidney
Education
- 1978 - 1984 Study of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany; Intern, Karlsruhe
- Municipal Hospital; doctoral thesis defense (Dr. med.), University of Freiburg; Admission to medical practice.
- 1993 Training for the Medical Specialist in Internal Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg.
- 1996 Training for the Medical Specialist in Nephrology, University Hospital Freiburg.
Positions
- 1984 - 1985 Assistant Physician, Pathology, University of Cologne.
- 1985 - 1987 Research Fellow, Institute of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne (Australia).
- 1987 - 1993 Medical Specialist, Medical Specialist, University of Freiburg.
- 1994 PD and Senior Physician, Internal Medicine, University of Freiburg.
- 1995 Research Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, USA.
- 1996 - 2001 PD and Senior Physician, Internal Medicine, University of Freiburg.
- 2002 - 2007 C4 Professor in Internal Medicine and Head of the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Marienhospital Herne, Ruhr University Bochum.
- 10/2007 W3 Professor, Head of the Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Duesseldorf.
Scholarships and Scientific Awards
- 1985 - 1987 Feodor Lynen Scholarship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
- 1992 Nils Alwall Prize of the German Association of Clinical Nephrology.
- 1995 Research Scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Other Activities and Qualifications
- 2003 Expert on the clinically significant hypertension of the European League in Arterial Hypertension.
- 2003 - 2007 Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum.
- 2004 - 2010 Board Member of the German Society of Hypertension
- 2005 Medical Expert of the German Society of Hypertension.
- Since 1998, the Reviewer of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the Projects on Renal Function and Arterial Hypertension.
- 2010 - 2012 Head of the Working Group "Heart – Kidney" of the German Society Of Cardiology.
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