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Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology (Department)

Emphases in Patient Care

  • Connective tissue diseases

  • All Vasculitis entities

  • Auto-Inflammatory Syndromes

  • Metabolic and Joint Disorders

  • Systemic Inflammatory Diseases

  • Differential diagnosis of rheumatic and other diseases

  • Innovative medical therapies

  • Special focuses and expertise

  • Systemic Sclerosis with experience in treating more than 1200 patients

  • ANCA-associated vasculitides: Granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis

  • Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with polyangiitis

  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

  • Myositis and related syndromes

  • Interstitial lung disease and other lung manifestations (e.g. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, PAH) of inflammatory systemic autoimmune diseases

  • Digital ulcer treatment

  • Giant cell arteritis

Emphases in Research

  • Low-dose IL-2 therapy in systemic lupus erythematosus

  • Regulatory antibodies targeting G protein-coupled receptors

  • Pathogenesis of granulomatosis with polyangiitis and giant cell vasculitis

  • Animal models for interstitial lung disease, systemic sclerosis, and PAH

  • Clinical studies on AAVGPA, GCA, SLE and systemic sclerosis sclerosis

Emphases in Education

  • National Reference Center for Systemic Sclerosis

  • Vasculitis Center

  • Local reference center for severe rheumatic diseases

  • Lectures in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology

Additional Information/Services

  • German and European Systemic Sclerosis Network and Registry (EUSTAR and DNSS center)

  • Center of the German Trinational Vasculitis Registry (GeVas)

  • Center for research on antibodies directed against G protein-coupled receptors

Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology

Director

Prof. Dr. Gabriela Riemekasten


Contact

UKSH International
Phone
Lübeck: +49 451 500-10735
e-mail international@uksh.de