Patient Care

As part of the Musculoskeletal University Center Munich (MUM), the Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine (IMM) participates in patient care. The Director of the Institute, Professor Eric Hesse MD/PhD, provides interdisciplinary clinical care to national and international patients with metabolic- and rare musculoskeletal diseases. The outpatient clinic is dedicated but not limited to adult patients with diseases like:

• Primary and secondary forms of osteoporosis
  
• Early onset osteoporosis
  
• Hereditary forms of osteoporosis
  
• Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)
  
• Short stature / skeletal dysplasia
  
• Syndromal diseases with involvement of the skeletal system
  
• Osteopetrosis / osteosclerosis
  
• Hereditary hypophosphatemia (XLH)
  
• Tumor-induced osteomalacia (TIO)
  
• Paget's disease
  
• Hypophosphatasia (HPP)
  
• …many other rare diseases affecting the skeleton