Chief physician Dr. Peter Haidl p.haidl@noSpam.fkkg.de	Senior physician Dr. Karim Osseiran k.osseiran@noSpam.fkkg.de	Senior physician Dr. Karsten Siemon k.siemon@noSpam.fkkg.de	Senior physician Dr. Markus Wenzel m.wenzel@noSpam.fkkg.de

Secretariat: Fon +49 (0) 29 72 / 791-2501 • Fax (0) 29 72-791-2526

The department of lung medicine (pneumology) supervises more than 4,000 patients each year. The focuses of the treatment are placed upon the following clinical pictures:

• Chronic obstructive bronchitis
• Lung emphysema
• Bronchial asthma
• Lung cancer
• Lung fibrosis
• Chronic persistent cough
  
  

The department has special competence in the assessment and training of inhalation therapies.

After the examination by the ward doctor upon admission, the necessary examinations and treatment possibilities will be discussed with you. An extensive lung function examination will often be necessary. X-rays of the lung are also important (helpful: to bring previous x-rays for comparison), if applicable a computer tomography will be required. A bronchoscopy (endoscopy of the respiratory tracts) may be necessary in order to clarify a chronic cough, if a tumour of the bronchia or the lung is suspected, and for the therapeutic suction of very thick bronchial mucus.

For example, the functional capability of the cilia of the mucous membrane in the respiratory tract can be measured in the department for nuclear medicine, the disorder of which is often the cause for the chronic cough.