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Rechts der Isar is the university hospital of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and one of the oldest in the city: its history goes back to 1834. It is a hospital of maximum care, which means the most complex and combined cases end up here — the ones simpler hospitals cannot always manage. Since 1 August 2024 it has been merged with the German Heart Centre into a single organisation, TUM Klinikum, while keeping its own name and profile.
What it specialises in
It is a general hospital covering practically every field of adult medicine — from internal medicine and surgery to neurology and radiology. The departments are grouped into specialist centres, which helps when an illness affects several systems at once and several specialists need to look at it together.
Its strengths are oncology, cardiovascular and general surgery, gastroenterology, neurology and neurosurgery. The oncology service works within Munich’s university system of tumour boards: complex cases are reviewed not by one doctor but by a team — oncologist, surgeon, radiologist, pathologist.
What sets it apart
Its defining feature is that the hospital is the research and teaching base of the medical faculty of the Technical University of Munich. In practice that means a link between the research laboratories and the wards: methods that have passed clinical trials reach the patient without years of delay. The hospital has its own research institutes, and its doctors teach and do research alongside their clinical work.
The merger with the German Heart Centre under TUM Klinikum has strengthened cardiology and cardiac surgery — this is now one of the largest complexes in Germany, with a general university hospital and a specialist heart centre side by side.
How we work with this hospital
We stay with the patient from the first enquiry. The coordinator helps collect and translate the medical documents — discharge letters, images, histology results — sends them to the hospital, agrees the preliminary assessment and cost estimate directly with it, and organises the trip. An interpreter is present at appointments. Payment goes directly to the hospital, with no mark-up on top.
This material is for information only and does not replace a consultation with a doctor. Whether treatment is possible, what it will involve and what it will achieve can be determined only after an examination at the clinic in person.