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Internal Medicine IV - Nephrology and Hypertension
Director: Univ.-Professor Dr. Danilo Fliser

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Research group 1

Research group 1 - Cardiovascular complications of chronic kidney disease

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Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Gunnar Heine
Tel. +49 6841/16-23523
Fax +49 6841/16-21347

 

 

Research focus

 

Collaborations

  • Dr. Yvonne Grenner, Leitende Betriebsärztin, Klinik für Innere Medizin II, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes
  • Dr. Bodo Cremers, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Laufs, Prof. Dr. Bruno Scheller, Dr. Oliver Weingärtner, Klinik für Innere Medizin III, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes
  • Prof. Dr. Jürgen Geisel, Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin - Zentrallabor
  • Priv.-Doz. Dr. Axel Schlitt, Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin III, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
  • Dr. Andreas Menzner / Priv-Doz. Dr. Martin Marx, SHG-Kliniken Völklingen
  • Priv.-Doz. Dr. Dr. Dieter Lütjohann Abteilung für Klinische Pharmakologie der Universität Bonn
  • Prof. Matthias Ziegler, Humboldt Universität Berlin
  • Prof. Loems Ziegler-Heitbrock, Hellholtz-Institut München-Garching

  • Dr. Björn Rotter, Gen X Pro, Frankfurt

  • Prof. Peter Stenvinkel, Karolinska Institut Stockholm

  • Prof. Dominic Raj, GWU Washington

  • Dr. Angelo Elmi, University of Pennsylvania

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Grants 

  • by the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Foundation (http://www.ekfs.de) for the project "Proatherosclerotic monocytes as predictors of cardiovascular events in patients with chronic kidney disease" in the amount of 175,000 € 
  • Homburg research program of the Medical Faculty of the Saarland University, Research Committee of the University of the Saarland 
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Contact

Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Gunnar Heine
Tel. +49 6841/16-23523
Fax +49 6841/16-21347

New Paper

Seiler S, Colbus SM, Lucisano G, Rogacev KS, Gerhart MK, Ziegler M, Fliser D, Heine GH.
Ultrasound renal resistive index is not an organ-specific predictor of allograft outcome.
Nephrol Dial Transplant 2012 Jan 30.
Impact factor: 3.6 Abstract

Seiler S, Cremers B, Rebling NM, Hornof F, Jeken J, Kersting S, Steimle C, Ege P, Fehrenz M, Rogacev KS, Scheller B, Bohm M, Fliser D, Heine GH.
The phosphatonin fibroblast growth factor 23 links calcium-phosphate metabolism with left-ventricular dysfunction and atrial fibrillation.
Eur Heart J 2011 Nov;32(21):2688-96.
Impact factor: 10.0. Abstract