Department of Kidney, High Pressure, and Autoimmune Diseases at University Hospital Stuttgart, located at the Katharinen Hospital, is among the 40 certified nephrological clinics in Germany and the third certified facility in Baden-Württemberg by the Germany Society for Nephrology (DGfN). As a part of the Stuttgart Transplant Center, the department offers the full range of care for patients with kidney and high blood pressure disorders, including all types of renal replacement methods. The dialysis center is one of the first and most significant facilities of its kind in Germany as it has 32 treatment units where about 11,000 patients receive hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis annually, on both an outpatient and inpatient basis.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Vedat Schwenger, the medical team treats 9,000 inpatients every year, 100 of which receive kidney transplantation in the Stuttgart Transplant Center. As one of the largest kidney transplant centers in Germany, the facility works in close cooperation with nephrologists, urologists, visceral surgeons, vascular surgeons, transfusion physicians, and specialists from the German Organ Transplantation Foundation and the Eurotransplant Foundation to carry out successful kidney transplants.
The Department of Kidney, High Pressure and Autoimmune Diseases at University Hospital Stuttgart is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:

• Chronic kidney disease
• Renal failure
• Polycystic disease
• Glomerulonephritis
• Interstitial nephritis
• Vesicoureteral reflux
• Systemic lupus erythematosus
• Granulomatosis
• Purpura Schönlein-Henoch
• Churg-Strauss vasculitis
• Goodpasture syndrome
• Sarcoidosis
• Collagenosis
• Multiple sclerosis
• Guillain-Barré syndrome