University Hospital Düsseldorf

The academic status of the clinic gives patients several advantages at once. First, access to a wide range of specialists, the use of an interdisciplinary approach and conduction of medical counseling. Secondly, the application of the latest advances in medical science in the diagnosis and treatment of patients. In addition to high-level medicine and scientific research, higher education is the third component of the medical expertise in the clinic, which helps to ensure the quality of medical knowledge in the future.

It is in the clinic of Düsseldorf that such treatment methods are available that have no analogues in Germany, and sometimes even in the world. This is the result of close cooperation between the university clinic and the medical faculty of the Heinrich Heine University.

One of the focuses of the hospital is the search for effective treatment, not just relief of symptoms in complex diseases.

Düsseldorf University Hospital is the largest medical institution in the region and the largest provider of inpatient and outpatient care in Düsseldorf. The clinic is multidisciplinary, operates on the principle of maximum care and covers the whole spectrum of medical services. These include:

The clinic of Düsseldorf consists of 34 separate clinics and more than 30 medical institutions. Every year the clinic invests huge funds in upgrading technical equipment, as well as attracting the best personnel in the sphere. Today, the medical staff numbers more than 1,400 highly qualified medical personnel and 6,000 personnel in general. The best specialists of Germany work here, as the clinic of Düsseldorf is highly respected in the medical society and has a high level of temptation as an employer.

One of the important advantage for the patient is the fact that the Hospital of Düsseldorf has a wide network of partner medical institutions and universities in Germany and abroad, which means that it can involve the necessary specialists from outside.

INNOVATIVE TREATMENTS AT THE DÜSSELDORF CLINIC

At the Düsseldorf hospital, scientific developments that have undergone thorough testing by clinical trials are already being applied today. Breakthrough treatments are are avaliable in such fields as:

TREATMENT OF ONCOLOGY AND ONCO-HEMATOLOGY IN DÜSSELDORF

Clinic Düsseldorf has special laboratories at its disposal for the implementation of the entire spectrum of modern diagnostics of hematological diseases before and during treatment. Also, if necessary, it is possible to transfer samples to other clinics in the region.

Particular attention is paid to the introduction of ultramodern diagnostic methods for acute and chronic leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, lymphoma and multiple myeloma. The presence of modern diagnostics makes it possible to adapt the treatment plan to the patient's individual characteristics.

With the help of molecular biology, the success of treatment is also monitored, and then there is a chance of relapse, so that further initiation of further treatment is possible.

The Düsseldorf clinic uses all the modern methods of treatment in onco-hematological diseases, including autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplantation. The hospital has many years of experience in the field of bone marrow transplantation. The clinic Düsseldorf was one of the first health facilities in the North Rhine-Westphalia region, which began to conduct this therapy in the 80's. Since then, more than 1500 bone marrow transplantation procedures have been carried out.

Today, the transplant procedure is improved and has virtually no serious side effects. An important fact is that bone marrow transplantation methods are now available for aged people , as well as patients with concomitant diseases.

Also, the Düsseldorf clinic is the leader in the treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome (disorders of the hemopoiesis of the myeloid line). In this field, the clinic conducts important clinical, epidemiological and molecular-biology. In Düsseldorf, the largest number of patients with MDS is registered. Great success in this field allowed the clinic of Düsseldorf to get the status of the "Center of Excellence of the MDS".

If desired, patients with cancer are able to participate in clinical trials of innovative methods of treatment and medicines that are conducted by the Düsseldorf University Hospital.

TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES IN DÜSSELDORF

 

The Neurology Department of the Düsseldorf Clinic owns advanced methods for diagnosing and treating diseases of the nervous system (brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves) and muscles. Particular attention in the clinic is paid to modern treatment of cerebrovascular diseases, multiple sclerosis, opto electro muselitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, myasthenia gravis, Parkinson's disease and other diseases.

The stroke unit at the Düsseldorf clinic is certified at the regional level. This allows the best diagnosis and treatment of strokes and their consequences in close cooperation with radiology, vascular and neurosurgery as well as cardiology.

Neurology Department of the University clinic of Düsseldorf fell into the rating of the Top centers for the treatment of multiple sclerosis in Germany according to the magazine Focus.

NEUROSURGERY IN DÜSSELDORF

Clinic of Neurosurgery at Düsseldorf Hospital is one of the largest neurosurgical centers in Europe. It was the specialists of Düsseldorf who had a significant influence on the formation of modern neurosurgery. They were among the first to introduce advance methods of surgery for brain tumors (for example, fluorescence technique), cerebral vascular surgery, spinal surgery, treatment of Parkinson's disease, as well as children's neurosurgery and peripheral nerve surgery. Senior doctors of the clinic are working on the important positions in the committees of German and European professional associations.

The Neurosurgical Department of the University Clinic of Düsseldorf annually serves more than 3,000 patients. On an outpatient treatment there are more than 15 000 patients a year. In addition, through telemedicine, clinic doctors conduct an assessment of the medical cases of thousands of patients from Germany and from abroad. Also, clinic specialists give patients a second opinion online.

To provide the best level of patient care, the Neurosurgery Clinic cooperates with Neuroradiology, Neurology, Radiation Therapy and Gamma Knife Center, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic and other departments.

A large number of experimental and clinical research groups make enormous efforts to develop new forms of treatment for malignant brain tumors, as well as cerebral aneurysms.

In neuro-oncology, different procedures are used to check the functions during a brain operation. Such operations for example, include removal of the tumor in the speech center of the brain with local anesthesia and using intraoperative monitoring methods.

To better visualize tumors in the clinic there is use of the method intraoperative fluorescent navigation. This method allows to make surgery more effective and less traumatic. Other approaches to treatment consist of the targeted administration of certain drugs to the surrounding tissue of the operated tumor in order to destroy the remaining tumor cells.

CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY IN DÜSSELDORF

Department of cardiac surgery in Düsseldorf is one of the best cardiac surgery centers in Germany. Since 1938, more than 50,000 heart operations have been performed here.

Some of the department's achievements:

the first open heart surgery using hypothermia; 

the first replacement of the heart valve in Germany;  

the first implantation of a pacemaker and a defibrillator system in Germany. 

All procedures on the heart and blood vessels are performed for adults and children alike.

In the Düsseldorf's Cardiac surgery department they perform such percedures as:

coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with complete arterial revascularization without the use of an artificial circulatory system;  

minimally invasive approaches (MIDCAB or MVST); 

innovative minimally invasive cardiac valve surgery (lateral mini-thoracotomy, Z-sterotomy, aortic valve replacement), etc. 

COST OF TREATMENT AT DÜSSELDORF UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL