University Hospital Halle (Saale)
Halle (Saale), Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Matthias Girndt
Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases
Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases at University Hospital Halle (Saale) provides care for patients with diseases affecting respective organs and systems. The department has the latest cutting-edge diagnostics and therapeutics for kidney diseases, diabetes, and rheumatological diseases. The therapeutic measures taken by the qualified medical team are all according to international standards. The department also offers transplantation surgeries for patients with end-stage kidney diseases. More than 50 kidney transplantation operations are performed every year with a collaboration with the Department of Urology.
Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. med. Matthias Girndt the department treats more than 2,360 inpatients every year. The rheumatology unit of the department is specialized in rheumatic diseases as well as autoimmune disorders. The research unit of the department has studies going on renal anemia, cardiorenal syndrome, and bone metabolism disorders.
Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases at University Hospital Halle (Saale) is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
• Glomerulonephritis
• Kidney infections
• Kidney failure
• Kidney damage due to systemic diseases
• Kidney damage in hypertension
• Collagenases
• Vasculitis
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Hypothyroidism
• Hyperthyroidism
• Bone metabolism disorders
• Osteoporosis
• Hyperandrogenism
• Obesity
• Lipid metabolism disorders
• Cushing’s syndrome
• Addison’s disease
• Pituitary diseases
- 1984 - 1986 Study of Medicine, Georg August University of Göttingen.
- 1986 - 1990 Study of Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
- 1991 - 1992 Internship, Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Mainz.
- 02.1991 Doctoral degree.
- 07.1991 Admission to medical practice.
- 1992 - 1993 Research training in the Immunology Laboratory (Head: Prof. B. Fleischer), Department of Pathophysiology, University of Mainz.
- 1993 - 2000 Resident in postgraduate training at the Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Saarland, Homburg.
- 04.1999 Board certification in Internal Medicine.
- 05.2000 Leading Senior Physician in the Department of Internal Medicine IV.
- 02.2001 Habilitation in Internal Medicine.
- 02.2001 Leading Senior Physician of the Department of Internal Medicine IV.
- 09.2001 Nils Alwall Prize of the German Working Group on Clinical Nephrology.
- 07.2002 Specialization in Nephrology.
- 10.2007 Extraordinary Professor of the Medical Faculty of Saarland University.
- 09.2008 W3 Professorship for Internal Medicine/Nephrology, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Research Focuses
- Chronic kidney failure.
- Immunological and cardiovascular pathologies.
- Inflammatory processes.
- Monocyte differentiation.
- Monocyte populations.
- Molecular biology.
- Cell culture.
- Hemodialysis.
- Kidney transplantation.
Clinical Focuses
- Systemic vasculitis with kidney lesion.
- Glomerulonephritis.
- Chronic kidney failure.
- Hypertension.
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