Department of Pediatric Immunology and Rheumatology at University Hospital Mainz provides care to infants, children, and adolescents with rheumatological and immune diseases. The department is known for its success and experience which has been standing for longer than 25 years and is focused on immune system disorders affecting bones, muscles, lungs, kidneys, brain, and heart. The department also treats patients with severe infections causing a huge drop in their immunity.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Med. Anja Sonnenschein, the department has an in-house Clinical and Immunological Laboratory which is equipped with the latest, modern diagnostics and therapeutics. The department also has a remarkable medical staff composed of experienced specialists in rheumatological diseases.

The Department of Pediatric Immunology and Rheumatology at University Hospital Mainz is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:

•    Agammaglobulinemia
•    Hypogammaglobulinemia
•    DiGeorge syndrome
•    Graft versus host disease
•    Septic granulomatosis
•    Cyclic neutropenia
•    Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
•    Bekhterev’s disease
•    Chronic uveitis
•    Acute arthritis
•    Amyloidosis
•    Dermatomyositis
•    Vasculitis
•    Henoch-Schönlein purpura
•    Kawasaki syndrome
•    Systemic lupus erythematosus