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The Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at the University Hospital of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich offers the full range of diagnostics and treatment for various diseases in newborns, children, and adolescents. The priority focuses of the department's clinical activities include the treatment of diseases of the respiratory system, endocrine glands, infectious diseases, diseases of the digestive system, liver, kidneys, and rheumatic pathologies. The department's doctors have excellent qualifications and easily cope with even the most complex clinical cases. The specialists use modern diagnostic methods in their work to make an accurate diagnosis and effective conservative treatment methods. Pediatricians work in collaboration with pediatric surgeons, and therefore if a child needs surgery, he will receive medical care as soon as possible. About 50,000 young patients receive medical care both on an inpatient and outpatient basis in the department every year. The medical facility has a friendly and pleasant atmosphere in which children feel as comfortable as possible. The department is headed by Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Klein.
A large number of patients who come to the department are children with gastrointestinal diseases such as gastritis, gastroenteritis, peptic ulcer, constipation, diarrhea, chronic cholecystitis, pancreatitis, and others. Pediatric gastroenterologists have excellent diagnostic options to detect the causes of gastrointestinal disorders. The specialists carry out laboratory tests, ultrasound scans, and functional diagnostics. With appropriate indications, young patients undergo endoscopic diagnostics, including colonoscopy, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, ileocolonoscopy, and video capsule endoscopy. Based on the results of comprehensive diagnostics, a child is prescribed an optimal treatment regimen. In most cases, doctors prescribe only modern drugs. The specialists also successfully perform endoscopic therapeutic procedures, such as vascular ligation and other types of hemostasis, or dilation to eliminate stenoses.
The department's pediatric endocrinologists treat hormonal imbalances caused by diseases of the pituitary gland, thyroid gland, adrenal glands, and gonads. Of particular interest is the provision of medical care to children with growth disorders (short stature and gigantism) and congenital metabolic disorders (phenylketonuria, galactosemia, maple syrup urine disease, MCAD deficiency, and LCHAD deficiency). Laboratory tests are usually sufficient to detect hormonal imbalances. As for treatment, it is mostly based on the correction of hormonal levels with the help of medications. In most cases, children undergo their treatment on an outpatient basis.
The department admits young patients with infectious diseases and their complications. Doctors have vast experience in providing medical care to children with tuberculosis, pneumonia, sepsis, urinary tract infections, fever syndromes, HIV, and others. Depending on the specific clinical case, young patients are prescribed antibiotics, antiviral drugs, interferon drugs, immunomodulators, antipyretic drugs, etc.
The department's therapeutic offer is complemented by the diagnostics and treatment of respiratory diseases in children. The team of the department's pediatric pulmonologists successfully cures patients with cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, primary ciliary dyskinesia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. The diagnostic stage involves laboratory tests, X-ray scans, lung diffusion capacity measurement, lung clearance index test, stress tests, spirometry, bronchoscopy, bronchoalveolar lavage, transbronchial biopsy, and other examinations. When the diagnosis is confirmed, an attending physician proceeds to develop a treatment regimen. A child receives only drug therapy whenever possible, and in complex cases, the specialists perform bronchoscopic interventional procedures.
The department's main clinical activities are as follows:
The department's range of therapeutic services includes the following options:
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According to the Focus magazine, the University Hospital of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich is regularly ranked among the best medical institutions in Germany!
The hospital is the largest multidisciplinary medical facility, as well as a leading research and training center in Germany and Europe. The hospital is proud of its bicentenary history and tirelessly confirms its primacy at the national and international levels. The outstanding quality of medical care is complemented by highly productive research activities, thanks to which many effective diagnostic and therapeutic methods, saving people’s lives, have been presented in medical practice.
The medical facility includes two main buildings, Grosshadern and Innenstadt. The hospital has 29 specialized departments, 53 interdisciplinary centers, 11 institutes, and many sections. More than 500,000 patients are treated here every year, which indicates the hospital's excellent reputation. A large and highly professional medical team, consisting of 1,800 doctors and 3,300 nursing staff, works for the benefit of patients. The hospital has 2,000 beds to accommodate patients.
The hospital's infrastructure deserves special attention: advanced diagnostic equipment that allows doctors to detect the slightest pathological changes in the human body, the latest operating rooms with highly efficient monitoring systems, robot-assisted surgical systems that facilitate sparing operations, and proper postoperative care.
Excellent technical resources and highly professional medical staff are undoubtedly the hospital's pride, but the medical facility also pays attention to the patient's comfort and to a humane attitude toward their life situation. When providing the necessary medical care, doctors and nursing staff always show a friendly attitude, inform patients in detail about the upcoming diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, gladly answer all questions of interest to patients, and provide moral support during the therapeutic process.
The hospital has many prestigious quality certificates, including a DIN EN ISO 9001 certificate, an IQM certificate, an endoCert certificate, certificates from the German Cancer Society (DKG) for treating various types of cancer, the German Cardiac Society (DGK), the German Society for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU), etc. Thus, patients can count on the best possible treatment outcome due to the use of the most effective and, at the same time, sparing therapeutic techniques.
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The patients of the University Hospital of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich live in comfortable, spacious, single and double patient rooms with a modern design. Each room is equipped with an ensuite bathroom with a shower and toilet. The furnishing of a standard patient room includes a comfortable bed, the position of which can be adjusted using the remote control, a locker for storing personal belongings, a TV, and a telephone. Also, if desired, you can connect to the Internet. In addition, patients can opt for enhanced-comfort rooms, with a safe, a fridge, and upholstered furniture.
The hospital has an excellent infrastructure. The medical facility’s area houses a bank, ATMs, a hairdresser, shops with a wide range of food, drinks, newspapers, magazines, and personal hygiene items, play areas for children, and a beautiful garden for walking, etc.
The patient and his accompanying person are offered a daily choice of three menus, including a vegetarian one. If you are on a specific diet for any reason, you will be offered an individual menu. Please inform the medical staff about your dietary preferences prior to the treatment.
Standard rooms include:
Religious services are available upon request.
Your accompanying person may stay with you in your room or at a hotel of your choice during the fixed program.
You may stay at a hotel of your choice during an outpatient program. Our managers will help you to choose the best option.
The hospital offers a full range of laboratory tests (general, hormonal, tests for infections, antibodies, tumor markers, etc.), genetic tests, various modifications of ultrasound scans, CT scans, MRI and PET/CT, angiography, myelography, biopsies, and other examinations. Treatment with medications, endoscopic and robotic operations, and stereotaxic interventions are carried out here, modern types of radiation therapy are also used. The hospital offers patients all the necessary therapeutic techniques.
Patients with benign and malignant neoplasms of various localizations, pathologies of arteries and veins, herniated discs, osteoporosis, congenital and acquired pathologies of the musculoskeletal system, benign and malignant pathologies of the mammary gland, and other pathologies.
Over 1,700 highly qualified doctors work at the hospital.
