3rd Department of Internal Medicine – Metabolic Care and Gerontology












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            We are an internal clinic providing outpatient and inpatient medical care with a special f

            diagnosis and treatment of patients with metabolic and nutritional disorders
            - intensive metabolic care
            - care of critically ill patients with internal diagnoses and internal complications of su

            diseases
            - provision of patients requiring parenteral and enteral nutrition, especially in complica
            - special diagnostics and therapy of metabolic and nutritional diseases (diabetes, obesito

            metabolism disorders)
            - diagnosis and treatment of acute conditions in old age

            - diagnosis and treatment of internal diseases, with a special focus on internal diseases 
            premature ageing
            - monitoring and treatment of patients after kidney transplantation

            - treatment with plasmapheresis and other elimination methods (CVVH, LDL apheresis)
            - treatment of patients with intoxications requiring the use of elimination methods (haemo
            haemodialysis)





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            * Main research topics
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            • Prediction of cardiovascular risk and prognosis in patients with hypercholesterolaemia b
              metabolomic analysis
            • Cardiovascular effects of flavonoid metabolites and the influence of metabolic risk fact

            • Development of novel infusion solutions to specifically treat indoor environmental distu
              bacterial and viral infections in intensive and long-term care




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            * Achievements
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            2022: 1st prize in the Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and Intensive Metabolic

            Publication Competition for original work by authors under 35 years of age: "The Impact of
            Lipid-Based Total Parenteral Nutrition...." (Skořepa, MD)