The Clinic for Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital Zurich is concerned with the surgical treatment of congenital and acquired heart defects in adult patients as well as with the treatment of...

The Clinic for Cardiology is a nationally and internationally leading reference center for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Building on our decades-long, universi...

You wish to have a child, but your wish did not come true until now? You are not alone in this. Every sixth couple in Switzerland is involuntarily childless - and the trend is rising. We help you t...

We are pleased to recommend the following hotels in the Zurich area, where you will receive special conditions if you inform them that you are a patient of the University Hospital Zurich.

In this specialized consultation hours of the clinic for Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, we give advice to patients who are colonized with or have been exposed to multidrug-resistant...

The Department for Rheumatology is organized into a number of specialist areas, which are managed and supervised by specialized physicians.

Thyroid function can be examined with a scintigraphy (figures 1-5). This is applied in particular for investigation of hyperthyroidism, to detect so called hot nodules (autonomy) and inactive nodul...

Tyrosine is a natural amino acid and an endogenous substance. 18F-ethyltyrosine (FET) is a tracer that, like amino acids, is taken up by brain-derived tumors and brain metastasis, but hardly by nor...

Tumor scintigraphy with MIBG is used in the search for pheochromocytoma as well as in the staging of neuroblastoma. The preparation as well as the procedure is different for adults and children. Pl...

Bone metastases are often seen in advanced malignant disease and are often symptomatic. It has been repeatedly proven that patients with advanced bone tumors or metastases have an accumulation of f...

Salivary gland scintigraphy depicts the function of the large paired salivary glands and obstruction of the excretory ducts of the large paired salivary glands.