The ZSE Ulm has the following specialist centres that deal with specific rare diseases.
Centre for Rare Neurological Diseases (ZSNE)
- Degenerative diseases of the CNS
- Inflammatory diseases of the nervous system
- Rare seizure disorders and phacomatoses
- Neuronal channelopathies
- Microdeletion syndrome
- Vascular diseases
- Myopathies
- Spinal muscular atrophies
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, MND
- M. Huntington's disease
- Rare neurodegenerative Parkinson's syndromes
- Rare forms of dementia, FTLD
- Rare inflammatory diseases of the nervous system
- Kennedy syndrome
- Neurofibromatoses
- Phelan McDermid syndrome
- Rare vascular diseases
- Clinic for Neurology
- Clinic for Ophthalmology
- Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine
- Clinic for Internal Medicine I
- Clinic for Internal Medicine II
- Clinic for Internal Medicine III
- Clinic for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
- Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy
- Clinic for Neurosurgery
- Clinic for Orthopaedics
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy III
- Clinic for Urology
- Institute of Human Genetics
Centre for Rare Neuromuscular Diseases (ZSNME)
- Degenerative diseases of the CNS
- Spinal muscular atrophies
- Myopathies
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, MND
- Rare myopathies
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Clinic for Neurology
- Clinic for Ophthalmology
- Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine
- Clinic for Internal Medicine I
- Clinic for Internal Medicine II
- Clinic for Internal Medicine III
- Clinic for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
- Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy
- Clinic for Neurosurgery
- Clinic for Orthopaedics
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy III
- Clinic for Urology
Centre for Rare Heart Diseases (ZSH)

Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Rottbauer
Ärztlicher Direktor der Klinik für Innere Medizin II

Dr. med. Michael Radermacher
Facharzt für Innere Medizin und Kardiologie
Schwerpunkte
Zusatzbezeichnung Kardio-MRT
Zusatzqualifikation Kardiale Magnetresonanztomographie (CMR) Level III
- Dilated cardiomyopathies
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathies
- Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
- Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy
- Peripartum cardiomyopathy
- Syndromes with susceptibility to malignant ventricular arrhythmias
- Rare benign ventricular arrhythmias
- Rare supraventricular arrhythmias
- Congenital heart defects
- Skeletal muscle diseases and other neurological diseases with cardiac involvement
- Rare cardiac tumours
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Clinic for Internal Medicine II of the Centre for Internal Medicine
- Clinic for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
- Clinic for Neurology
Centre for Rare Endocrine Diseases (ZSEE)

Prof. Dr. med. Martin Wabitsch
Vorstandsvorsitzender des Zentrums für Seltene Erkrankungen (ZSE) Ulm; Leiter Sektion Pädiatrische Endokrinologie und Diabetologie; Stellvertretender Standortdirektor Deutsches Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendgesundheit (DZKJ)


Dr. med. Julia von Schnurbein
Fachärztin; Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin
Schwerpunkte
Kinder-Endokrinologie und -Diabetologie

Dr. med. Johanna Backhus
Fachärztin für Innere Medizin und Gastroenterologie
Schwerpunkte
Hepatologie
- Differences of sex development (DSD)
- Growth disorder - short stature
- Growth disorder - tall stature
- Puberty development disorders
- Disorders of weight regulation
- Disorders of the function of the pituitary gland, hypothalamus and CNS
- Disorders of thyroid function
- Disorders of adrenal gland function
- Disorders of testicular function and the male genitalia
- Disorders of ovarian function and female sexual characteristics
- Disorders of glucose and triglyceride metabolism
- Disorders of bone metabolism and calcium/phosphate metabolism
- Disorders of water regulation
- Syndromal diseases with endocrine disorders
- Lipodystrophy diseases
- Clinic for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
- Clinic for Internal Medicine I, Centre for Internal Medicine
- Institute for Human Genetics
- Department of Surgery I (Paediatric Surgery Section)
- Central Laboratory for Clinical Chemistry (Hormone Laboratory)
Centre for Rare Skeletal Diseases (ZSSK)
Osteopetrosis
- Infantile (malignant) osteopetrosis
- Intermediate osteopetrosis
Osteochondrodysplasia and skeletal developmental disorders
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Achondroplasia
- Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia
- Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia
- Metaphyseal dysplasia
- Multiple cartilaginous exostoses
Tooth and jaw malformations
- Oligodontia, anodontia
- Diseases of the dental hard tissues:
- (amelogenesis imperfecta, dentinogenesis
- imperfecta, amelogenesis imperfecta-gingival
- hyperplasia syndrome, dentin dysplasia,
- Dentinogenesis imperfecta-short stature-hearing
- loss- intellectual disability syndrome )
- Dental ankyloses
- Cleft palate
- Apert syndrome
- Pfeiffer syndrome
- Orthopaedic University Hospital Ulm at the RKU
- Clinic for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
- Clinic for Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology
- Clinic for Dental Prosthetics
- Clinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Clinic for Orthodontics and Orthodontics
Centre for Rare Tumour Diseases & Tumour Susceptibility (ZSTETS)
- Malignant neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract
- Neoplasms of endocrine and neuroendocrine organs
- Haematological neoplasms
- Sarcomas and testicular tumours
- Genetic tumour susceptibility syndromes
- Clinic for Internal Medicine I of the Centre for Internal Medicine
- Clinic for Internal Medicine III of the Centre for Internal Medicine
- Clinic for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
- Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics
- Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine
- Institute of Human Genetics at Ulm University Hospital
- Institute of Pathology
- Comprehensive Cancer Centre Ulm (CCCU)
Centre for Rare Skin Diseases (ZSD)
- Systemic sclerosis
- Familial lupus erythematosus
- Hereditary angioedema
- Scleredema adultorum Buschke
- Clinic for Dermatology and Allergology
- Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine
- Clinic for Dental Prosthetics
Centre for Rare Disorders of Haematopoiesis and Immunodeficiencies (ZSHI)

Prof. Dr. med. Holger Cario
Oberarzt Kinder-Hämatologie und –Onkologie; Sprecher d. Zentrums f. Seltene Störungen der Hämatopoese und Immundefekte (ZSHI Ulm); Leiter des Hämoglobinlabors


Haematopoiesis disorders
- Thalassaemias
- Sickle cell disease
- Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria
- Congenital aplastic anaemia
- Acquired aplastic anaemia
- Ery membrane defects
- Congenital erythrocytosis
- Hereditary thrombocytosis
- Myeloproliferative diseases
- Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia
- Autoimmune thrombocytopenia
- Rare iron and vitamin metabolism disorders
- Ery enzyme defects
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome, atyp.
- Hereditary sideroblastic anaemia
- Congenital dyserythropoietic anaemias
- Congenital methaemoglobinaemias
Immunodeficiencies
Diagnosis and treatment of immunodeficiency diseases and congenital bone marrow disorders
- SCID (Omenn syndrome, ADA deficiency, PNP deficiency, ZAP70 defect, MHC°II defect / bare lymphocyte syndromes, reticular dysgenesis)
- CVID and antibody deficiency syndromes, Bruton's disease
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS)
- Septic granulomatosis / CGD syndrome, Purtillo syndrome, hyper-IgM syndrome
- Osteopetrosis
Diagnosis and treatment of children with rheumatological and autoinflammatory diseases
- Diseases of the joint apparatus (e.g. juvenile idiopathic arthritis)
- Diseases of the connective tissue (collagenoses, e.g. dermatomyositis, lupus erythematosus)
- Diseases of the blood vessels (vasculitis)
- periodic fever syndromes (PFAPA syndrome, familial Mediterranean fever, hyper-IgD syndrome, TRAPS, cyclic neutropenia, HLH)
- Clinic for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
- Clinic for Internal Medicine III of the Centre for Internal Medicine
- Institute for Transfusion Medicine / Institute for Clinical Transfusion Medicine and Immunogenetics Ulm
- Institute of Human Genetics at Ulm University Hospital
Centre for Rare Liver, Intestinal and Pancreatic Diseases (ZSLDPE)

Prof. Dr. rer. med. Alexander Kleger
Leiter Pankreatologie Stellvertretender Leiter Internistische Notaufnahme- und Intermediate-Care-Station M1b

Dr. med. Johanna Backhus
Fachärztin für Innere Medizin und Gastroenterologie
Schwerpunkte
Hepatologie
- Alagille syndrome
- Familial cholestasis diseases
- Budd-Chiari syndrome
- Caroli disease
- Cholangitis, primary biliary
- Hepatitis D
- Hepatitis, autoimmune chronic
- Hepatic vein occlusive disease
- Liver disease, isolated polycystic
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Wilson's disease
- Recurrent hepatitis C virus-induced liver disease
- in liver transplant patients
- Cholangitis and pancreatitis, follicular
- Hypereosinophilic syndromes
- Pancreatitis, acute recurrent
- Pancreatitis, chronic hereditary
- IgG 4 associated diseases / pancreatitis
- Pancreas anulare
- Achalasia, idiopathic
- Triple A syndrome
- Eosinophilic oesophagitis
- Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
- Eosinophilic colitis
- Short bowel syndrome
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIPO)
- Gastroschisis
- Omphalocele
- Anal atresia
- Oesophageal atresia
- Duodenal stenosis
- Genetic intractable diarrhoea of infancy
- Congenital chloride diarrhoea
- Rare inflammatory bowel diseases
- Severe immune-mediated enteropathy
- IL 10 -associated early childhood inflammatory bowel disease
- Non-classifiable colitis
- Clinic for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
- Clinic for Internal Medicine I of the Centre for Internal Medicine
- Department of Surgery I at Ulm University Hospital with Paediatric Surgery Section




