The specialized center at Heidelberg University Hospital with a broad spectrum of diagnostics and therapy. We offer a hemodialysis program, a peritoneal dialysis program, a ward and a supraregional kidney outpatient clinic.
The Heidelberg Kidney Center has gained an international reputation as a specialist clinic in the field of kidney transplantation, peritoneal dialysis, acute kidney failure, diabetic nephropathy and the role of the kidney in the development of hypertension. Here you will find competent advice.
You can also attend our information events: Sometimes information is as beneficial as medication, because the warning signs and symptoms of kidney disease are often ambiguous. The sooner you know, the earlier and better we can treat you.
Vaccinations are an essential part of our healthcare.
Vaccinations for immunosuppression
To mark Organ Donation Day on June 1, 2024, we are showing a film about the organ donation register. Registration is voluntary and free of charge and gives hope to people on the waiting list. It can be changed or revoked at any time.
Every year in March, we invite you to this highlight in the Neue Aula am Universitätsplatz in Heidelberg. The seminar offers internists an overview of the current state of knowledge in theoretical and clinical nephrology. Here is a review.
The entry in the organ donor register has been available digitally since March 18, 2024. Here, anyone aged 16 and over can specify what should happen to their organs in the event of their death.
If you are planning an organ transplant through living organ donation, then MIC cell therapy is of interest to you. The Heidelberg Kidney Center would like to invite you to participate in the MIC study.
At the 34th Symposium Intensive Medicine + Intensive Care from February 14 - 16, 2024 in Bremen, the Hanse Prize for Intensive Care Medicine was awarded to Dr. Christian Nußhag, Kidney Center Heidelberg.
Dr. med. Louise Benning received an award for her research work "Between immunosuppression and immunocompetence - establishing immune monitoring after kidney transplantation" on October 27, 2023
The scientist Dr. med. Louise Benning from the NZH research team, receives one of the Best Abstract prizes at the ESOT Congress 2023, for developing a vision and research for the future of organ transplantation
Spring and summer 2023 were and are hot: preliminary figures show that temperatures will exceed those of last year's hot summer. Climate change may be the greatest health threat of the twenty-first century
While we have locked this annoying corona pandemic in the dark chamber of oblivion and are enjoying ourselves on the beach, in the thermal baths and in the beer garden, the virus begins to make its ugly rounds again under the code name "Eris"
In general, little is known about possible renal replacement procedures, although around 10% of Germans are affected by chronic kidney disease. The German Society of Nephrology (DGfN) is closing gaps on the knowledge map with a "KIDNEY NAVI".
In July 2022, doctor and scientist Louise Benning was awarded the Heidelberg Medical Faculty's Young Talent Award for her research into the vaccination response to protect against COVID-19 in kidney transplant patients
The DIVI Congress and Award Ceremony 2021 - A successful outcome for Christian Nusshag even in times of "greatest challenge"
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