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Pediatric pulmonology

In the Department of pediatric pulmonology, we care for children and adolescents with diseases of the lungs and respiratory tract such as bronchial asthma, obstructive bronchitis, congenital lung diseases, cystic fibrosis, rare lung diseases, systemic diseases with lung involvement, and respiratory regulation disorders. We offer all the necessary diagnostic methods, e.g. pulmonary function measurements (spirometry, whole-body plethysmography, nitric oxide in ex-haled air (FeNO), nitrogen washout, exercise lung function, bronchoprovocations and bronchospasmolytic test), sweat test, ciliary functional analysis, allergy testing (skin prick test, specific IgE in blood) and provocation testing in suspected food or drug allergies, rigid and flexible bronchoscopy, polysomnography (sleep laboratory tests).

Depending on the clinical syndrome and stage of the disease, patients are seen at our special consultation hours, our day clinic, or our specialized pediatric ward. Since allergic diseases usually affect several different organ systems, there is an interdisciplinary cooperation of the allergology clinics and departments in the “Allergy Center Hesse” (AZH) (GER). If there is a proven allergy, specific immunotherapy (hyposensitization) can be carried out at our outpatient clinic, including instances of bee or wasp venom allergy.

The sleep laboratory for children and adolescents is operated in close cooperation with the Sleep Medicine Center (GER). Within the framework of “polysomnography”, all relevant aspects of sleep are recorded and analyzed via a modern measuring station. The first presentation is usually made at our special consultation for pediatric sleep medicine. For measurement in the sleep laboratory, the inpatient admission takes place in the late afternoon. The child can usually be discharged the next morning so that there is usually no missed school time.

 Special outpatient clinics:

  • Consultation hours for children with asthma (including in infancy), hay fever, or other allergic diseases
  • Consultation hours for children with neurodermatitis
  • Consultation hours for children with rare lung diseases
  • Consultation hours for children with cystic fibrosis
  • Sleep laboratory outpatient clinic

  • Contact appointment request

    Contact Appointment request of the Clinic for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
    E-mail: Kinderpoli.mr@uk-gm.de
    Tel: 06421-58-62668       
    Please note that the telephone for appointment requests is only staffed from Mon.-Thurs. from 08:00 to 15:00! Please state your telephone number directly in your request by e-mail and we will call you back!  

Spectrum of treatment

We treat the entire spectrum of acute and chronic diseases of the lungs and respiratory tract in children and adolescents:

  • Acute infectious diseases of the upper and lower respiratory tracts
  • Aspiration events
  • Cystic fibrosis (mucoviscidosis)
  • Chronic productive lung disease (bronchiectasis):  primary ciliary dyskinesia, primary or secondary immunodeficiencies
  • Obstructive airway diseases, bronchiolitis, obstructive bronchitis
  • Bronchial asthma
  • Abnormalities of the lung: bronchogenic cysts, pulmonary cysts, congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation, pulmonary sequestration, congenital lobar emphysema, pulmonary agenesis, pulmonary aplasia, pulmonary hypoplasia, lymphangiectasia of the lung, chylothorax, spontaneous pneumothorax
  • Primary diseases of the lung parenchyma: interstitial pneumopathies, exogenous allergic alveolitis, alveolar proteinosis, pulmonary hemosiderosis, microlithiasis, lipid pneumonias
  • Systemic diseases with lung involvement: sarcoidosis, bronchiolitis obliterans after organ transplantation, congenital metabolic diseases
  • Diseases of the mediastinum and pleura
  • Respiratory regulation disorders: genetic disorders, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome
  • Sleep-related breathing disorders: obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
  • Noninvasive ventilation therapy

Research:  Participation in the Kinder-Register Asthma (Children’s Asthma Registry – KIRA) study of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) (GER)