Welcome to the web page of the Department of Nephrology and General Internal Medicine at the Solingen City Hospital. Here you will find information that will enable you to familiarise yourself with the full range of services provided by the Clinic.
Our department is a department of general internal medicine with a focus on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of kidney and hypertensive diseases, bone metabolism, diabetology as well as rheumatic diseases. Almost all diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the field of nephrology and rheumatology are carried out within our walls.
We keep up with the times, so we use only modern equipment, progressive methods of treatment, implement the achievements of the latest scientific research. The focus of attention of the specialists of our Clinic is the patient with his individual anamnesis, with his personal problem.

Specialisation of the Clinic of Nephrology and General Internal Medicine

The Department of Nephrology has both inpatient and outpatient departments. For patients who need dialysis for chronic kidney diseases there are 19 dialysis beds, for high pressure monitoring and transplantation monitoring, as well as an ultrasound laboratory with colour duplex sonography. The department provides treatment for the following areas and diagnoses:

• Kidney diseases: glomerulonephritis, lupus erythematosus and other collagenoses, vasculitis, hereditary kidney diseases.
• High blood pressure.
• Diagnosis and immunosuppressive therapy, including hereditary diseases.
• Implementation of all blood purification processes in renal failure and poisoning.
• Diagnosis and treatment of bone marrow metabolic disorders.
• Transplantation: treatment of patients before and after renal transplantation, including long-term follow-up.

The head and chief physician of the Department of Nephrology and Internal Medicine is Dr Michael Schmitz, MD. Dr Schmitz specialises in internal medicine and nephrology, intensive care medicine as well as the treatment of hypertension. Dr Schmitz is the Clinic’s commissioner for stroke and blood transfusion.

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Techniques and methods of treatment

The department is equipped to accurately diagnose and treat patients with acute and chronic diseases. The main techniques and treatment methods used by the doctors in the department are:

• haemodialysis;
• haemodialysis; haemodialysis filtration;
• continuous kidney replacement (CVVH, CVVHD, CVVHDF);
• regional anticoagulation with citrate in intermittent and continuous dialysis;
• plasmapheresis, immune adsorption;
• lipidapheresis MARS/MARS on request;
• peritoneal dialysis (CAPD, APD, IPD);
• preparation and organisation of home haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.
• In co-operation with our clinic for vascular surgery applies:
• installation of all vascular accesses;
• installation of shunts for dialysis;
• vascular prosthetics.