Our liver speciality clinic deals with a variety of different liver diseases and is happy to be a point of contact for you as a patient if you suspect a liver disease or if a specific diagnosis of a liver disease has already been made. We are also available to our colleagues at any time as a point of contact for the planning and implementation of further diagnostics and treatment of the respective liver disease.
Contact & Appointments
Appointment times: Monday to Thursday 13:00 -15:30, Friday 08:00 - 12:00
When you come to our consultation hours, we ask you to fill out our intake questionnaire on site so that we can deal with your enquiry as quickly and comprehensively as possible.
Our hepatology team
Focal points of the liver consultation
- Liver damage in fatty liver disease
- Treatment of liver cirrhosis and its complications
- Alcohol- and drug-induced liver damage
- Autoimmune liver diseases
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH)
Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC)
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) - Liver diseases in the context of storage diseases, such as iron storage disease (haemochromatosis) or copper storage disease (Wilson's disease)
- Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
- Virus-related hepatitis, such as acute and chronic A, B, C and D virus infections
- Liver diseases during pregnancy
- Involvement of the liver in rheumatological diseases
Our services
Our team of doctors has many years of experience in dealing with and caring for patients with liver diseases. The diagnostic and therapeutic procedure is discussed in regular conferences within our medical team. Thanks to good networking with other departments, patient care is interdisciplinary: patients with liver tumours are treated in close cooperation with colleagues from our Centre for Gastrointestinal Oncology and the team from the certified interdisciplinary liver cancer centre.
We work closely with colleagues from the transplant centres at the university hospitals in Tübingen and Heidelberg to prepare for and follow up on transplants. All necessary examinations for listing for liver transplantation are carried out in our clinic.
Interventional examinations of the liver are carried out in close co-operation with the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and our endoscopy department. The diagnostic and therapeutic services provided by our team of doctors include performing a liver biopsy as part of a minilaparoscopy and haemodynamic measurements on the liver in cases of liver cirrhosis (HVPG).
We attach particular importance to close and good co-operation with our colleagues in private practice and are happy to answer any questions and suggestions you may have!
Interventional indirect measurement of the pressure in the portal vein (the main supply vein of the liver) via a central venous access, and thus acquisition of valuable information regarding the progression of the liver damage as well as risk stratification regarding the further immediate course of the disease.
Especially in patients with advanced liver damage, there is an increased risk of post-operative haemorrhage when performing a "normal" transcutaneous liver biopsy in the presence of ascites and poor coagulation. Our team has many years of experience in performing a so-called "transjugular" liver biopsy, which avoids these problematic factors.
This intervention is often an excellent interventional therapeutic option, particularly for patients with liver cirrhosis and the resulting variceal haemorrhage or ascites (abdominal fluid) that can no longer be treated with medication, in order to stop the bleeding or reduce the abdominal fluid in the long term: the excess pressure in the portal vein is lowered by transferring a connection between the superior vena cava and the portal vein, thereby eliminating the problems resulting from the excess pressure in the portal vein, such as variceal haemorrhage. In close co-operation with interventional radiology, this examination is carried out both as part of elective procedures and as an emergency examination in our clinic. A so-called "TIPS team" is available for this purpose.
In this form of endoscopic endoscopy of the abdominal cavity, the liver is inspected "on site". If necessary, samples can be taken from the liver under visualisation.