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In the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine patients from the extremely premature infant to the critically ill adolescent are medically treated.  In doing so, our diagnostic and therapeutic options are tailored to meet the special needs of the individual’s particular developmental stage. The Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine together with the Departments  of

• Pediatric and Adolescent Surgery
• Pediatric and Adolescent Psychiatry

constitute the Pediatric and Adolescent Center of the Klinkum Mutterhaus der Borromäerinnen.

In the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine we treat all disorders of childhood and adolescence. Special attention is directed towards the holistic care of children and adolescents with chronic conditions.

Specialty Areas:

• premature and newborn medicine (neonatology) in the  Perinatal Center
• disorders of the respiratory system (Pediatric  Pneumology)
• disorders of the nervous system in childhood and adolescence (Neuropediatrics)
• disorders of the blood and blood forming organs as well as malignant disorders in childhood and adolescence (hemato-oncology)
• diabetes mellitus
• infectious diseases
• allergies
• rheumatoid and immunological disorders
• disorders of the gastrointestinal tract (gastroenterology)
• special ultrasound techniques in childhood and adolescence