Frankfurt, Germany



Frankfurt University Hospital


Frankfurt University Hospital is recognized as the best medical center not only in Germany, but also in Europe. The clinic has gained its popularity thanks to the staff of experienced doctors, modern equipment and innovative methods of treatment.

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About Frankfurt University Hospital

Frankfurt University Hospital provides qualified assistance to patients in all medical fields. The institution includes 24 departments that meet the most modern standards of medicine. The medical staff consists of about 4,000 employees.

University Hospital Frankfurt is a major research center which allows engaging in scientific development and introduce innovations in the treatment of patients.

Advantages of Frankfurt University Hospital

University Hospital Frankfurt employs the world's best specialists with many years of experience who use innovative methods for diagnosing and treating diseases. Most heads of departments have a professor's degree; for many patients this is a key point when choosing a medical institution.
  • High-level Specialists
    Specialists of Frankfurt University Hospital regularly exchange experience with colleagues from foreign clinics. They do internships at leading medical institutions in the world. Due to this, diagnostic methods are constantly being developed and improved, on which, in turn, the successful outcome of treatment depends.
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  • Professionalism
    Patients of Frankfurt University Hospital are guaranteed medical care from the best doctors in Germany, who direct all their professionalism to the successful fight against the disease.
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  • Interdisciplinary Approach
    The close interconnection of specialists from different medical fields enables the patient to receive advice from different specialists and the most effective help.
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International Awards and Achievements

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Frankfurt University Hospital's Specialization

Frankfurt University Hospital provides medical services in a wide variety of areas and guarantees a top-level approach. Doctors will do everything possible to ensure that the disease recedes or stops progressing.

Oncology

With about 900 surgical interventions per year, Frankfurt University Hospital is one of the largest oncological institutions in Germany. University Cancer Center is a joint institution of Frankfurt University Hospital and Medical Faculty of the Goethe University, as well as Northwestern Hospital. The work of a team of doctors from various areas of oncology is aimed at conducting high-precision diagnostics and high-quality treatment to achieve the best results.

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Frankfurt University Hospital diagnoses and treats all pathologies of the esophagus, biliary tract, gastrointestinal tract, pancreas and liver. Particular attention is paid to chronic liver pathologies and their complications (cirrhosis of the liver, hepatocellular carcinoma), as well as malignant tumors in the organs of the gastrointestinal tract. In addition, Frankfurt University Hospital is equipped with the latest equipment for endoscopy and sonography. Frankfurt University Hospital also has a modern laboratory for diagnostics and treatment of all gastroenterological and hepatological pathologies.

Usually gastroenterological and hepatological diseases are manifested by typical symptoms. However, there are also “silent” diseases, the identification of which requires careful diagnostics.

Difficulty swallowing, stomach pain, and symptoms such as diarrhea and constipation, as well as vomiting blood or blood in the stool, indicate problems in the digestive tract. Colic is characteristic of gallstone disease. Inflammation of the pancreas is accompanied by severe pain in the upper abdomen. Jaundice is often observed with problems of the liver and biliary tract. But many pathologies, such as chronic inflammation of the liver or tumors in the gastrointestinal tract and liver, often remain asymptomatic for a long time. In this case, preventive examinations such as a colonoscopy or, for example, a complete colonoscopy (double-balloon endoscopy) or an ultrasound examination of the liver as a whole and in the presence of relevant risk factors are necessary.

Diabetology and Endocrinology

The Department of Diabetology and Endocrinology at Frankfurt University Hospital specializes in the diagnosеiсs and treatment of hormonal diseases, disorders of sugar, fat and bone metabolism.

Frankfurt University Hospital has a specialized outpatient clinic and an intensive care center for diabetes. It employs a highly qualified team of diabetologists and nutritionists, as well as nutritionists and psychologists. Endocrinologists deal with the whole spectrum of hormonal diseases.

Regular interdisciplinary meetings between specialists in the field of nuclear medicine, neuroradiology, surgeons, neurosurgeons ensure that carefully considered decisions regarding further treatment options are made.

Frankfurt University Hospital treats:
  • adrenal insufficiency;
  • Addison's disease;
  • adrenogenital syndrome;
  • polyendocrine autoimmune syndrome;
  • hypogonadism;
  • male infertility;
  • gynecomastia;
  • polycystic ovary syndrome;
  • neuroendocrine tumors;
  • multiple endocrine neoplasia;
  • enlargement of the adrenal glands;
  • thyroid carcinomas;
  • elastography of thyroid nodules.
Center for Diabetes Therapy. Inpatient treatment for diabetes is carried out in a certified diabetes center. For patients, an individual treatment plan is selected using the latest methods of therapy and a modern system for measuring glucose levels. In addition, the center works closely with other specialized centers to provide interdisciplinary treatment for comorbidities.

Pulmonology and Allergology

The Department of Pulmonology and Allergology at Frankfurt University Hospital specializes in the treatment of diseases of the lungs and respiratory tract. Particular attention is paid to bronchial asthma, as well as chronic obstructive bronchitis and cystic fibrosis. Various forms of therapy are carried out in close cooperation with specialists in cardiovascular and thoracic vascular surgery.

The focus is on the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary and respiratory diseases: hay fever, asthma, COPD, sleep apnea and respiratory infections (pneumonia and tuberculosis), oncological diseases, diffuse diseases of the lung tissue.

In terms of diagnostics, University Hospital Frankfurt provides the entire range of pulmonological examination methods in the field of lung function, pneumological endoscopy and thoracic sonography, the BAL laboratory, a special laboratory and the diagnosеiсs of sleep apnea.

The work of the center of the University Hospital Frankfurt is aimed at individual, targeted effective therapy using all currently available treatment methods, including endobronchial interventions, oncological systemic therapy, immunotherapy, non-invasive and invasive ventilation and methods of extracorporeal lung replacement.

Hematology and Oncology

The Department of Hematology/Oncology at University Hospital Frankfurt offers the full range of diagnostic services and therapy for malignant diseases of the hematopoietic system. Particular attention is paid to the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic leukemia, malignant lymphoma and the treatment of solid tumors: lung, gastrointestinal tract tumors, renal cell carcinoma and soft tissue and bone sarcomas. University Hospital Frankfurt has a modern laboratory equipped with all necessary laboratory services, including cytomorphology, immunophenotyping and molecular genetics.

Frankfurt University Hospital is a major center for bone marrow transplantation where about 80-100 transplantations are performed annually, both autologous and allogeneic transplants.

Particular attention at Frankfurt University Hospital is given to the treatment of diseases such as:
  • acute lymphocytic leukemia;
  • acute myeloid leukemia;
  • chronic myeloid leukemia;
  • chronic lymphocytic leukemia;
  • myelodysplastic syndrome;
  • multiple myeloma;
  • Hodgkin's lymphoma;
  • non-Hodgkin's lymphoma;
  • bronchial carcinoma;
  • kidney carcinoma;
  • pancreatic carcinoma;
  • sarcomas;
  • other tumors.

Hemostasiology and Hemophilia

The Department of Hemostasiology and Hemophilia at Frankfurt University Hospital specializes in diseases associated with bleeding disorders. Disturbances in the blood coagulation system can lead to both reduced hemostasis (a tendency to bleed) and excessive clotting (a tendency to thrombosis).

The team of highly qualified specialists from the Department of Hemostasiology / Hemophilia at University Hospital Frankfurt has all the necessary skills to provide high-quality and effective care to patients.

The Department of Hemostasiology and Hemophilia at the University Hospital Frankfurt treats:
  • unclear tendency to bleeding;
  • hemophilia;
  • von Willebrand-Jurgens syndrome;
  • rare blood clotting disorders such as deficiency of factor II, V, VII, X, XI, XIII;
  • pre- or postoperative clotting disorders such as consumption coagulopathy or hyperfibrinolysis;
  • thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura;
  • immune thrombocytopenia or essential thrombocythemia;
  • platelet dysfunction;
  • antiphospholipid syndrome;
  • arterial and venous thrombosis;
  • family history;
  • pregnancy complications;
  • bleeding disorders during pregnancy and in the postpartum period;
  • problems of anticoagulant therapy.

Rheumatology

The Department of Rheumatology at University Hospital Frankfurt specializes in treating patients with diseases that cover the entire spectrum of rheumatic forms: rheumatoid arthritis, reactive arthritis, spondyloarthropathies (e.g. Bechterew's disease, psoriatic arthritis), gout, hemochromatosis, systemic autoimmune diseases (so-called collagenoses, e.g. systemic lupus erythematosus, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, systemic scleroderma), vasculitis and many others.

Diagnostic services of the Department of Rheumatology at University Hospital Frankfurt include:
  • autoimmune diagnostics;
  • arthrosonography;
  • low-field MRI diagnostics;
  • joint punctures;
  • monoclonal antibody therapy.
Frankfurt University Hospital has modern special rooms for patients suffering from rheumatism.
Clinical trials offer innovative therapies using antibodies.

Infectious diseases / HIV

After a differentiated history and diagnostics, the necessary scheme is selected for the successful fight against infections of varying severity, depending on the needs of each individual patient. The patient can be treated on an outpatient basis, in an infectious diseases department or an isolation ward.

Outpatient services are divided into General Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, HIV Center and Interdisciplinary Vaccination Consultation.

The Infectious Diseases Department at University Hospital Frankfurt sees patients with unclear or complicated infections, such as travelers returning with fever symptoms or cancer patients with severe co-infections. The isolator is intended for the treatment of life-threatening, infectious diseases. An interdisciplinary approach is taken when it comes to patients with comorbidities.

HIV. Clinical research in the field of HIV therapy provides an important impetus for the further development of antiretroviral therapy, as well as for the search for new approaches and methods to defeat HIV. The main area of research within the HIV CENTER has a clinical focus and concerns the optimization of ART care, infection prevention, accounting for and optimal treatment of comorbidities, the development of new diagnostic methods and the creation of completely new therapeutic procedures.

Patients at risk are offered prevention strategies adapted to the target groups in order to prevent new infections and at the same time to study long-term efficacy.

HIVCENTER is the only center in Germany that has created its own direction for the treatment and research of women with HIV.

In addition, patients at Frankfurt University Hospital can participate in research on completely new therapeutic approaches. They aim to eradicate HIV completely, for example, by targeted eradication of the virus, including viral DNA integrated into the cell nucleus, or by targeting the patient's immune system so that lifelong treatment, as currently needed, becomes redundant.


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Epilepsy

Epilepsy is the most common serious brain pathology, affecting about 0.5-1% of the population. More than 70% of patients with epilepsy can be completely free of seizures with optimal medical therapy. Frankfurt University Hospital offers comprehensive medical and social care and detailed consultations for patients from all over the world.

For an integrated approach for all patients, the epilepsy center has established close cooperation between the clinics of neurology, neurosurgery, pediatrics, including neuropediatrics and obstetrics, the institute of neuroradiology, neurooncology and many other diagnostic and treatment institutions. Patients can be treated on an outpatient or inpatient basis, receiving a wide range of services from diagnostics and consultation to therapy.

The Epilepsy Center of Frankfurt University Hospital offers care to patients with:
  • unclear convulsive disorders;
  • the first epileptic seizure but still unclear cause and unclear epileptic syndrome;
  • severe chronic epilepsy, i.e. when it is not possible to get rid of seizures, despite antiepileptic drugs.