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Nephrology & Dialysis Department

Deals with the diagnosis and treatment of kidney-related diseases.

Nephrology focuses on ensuring the normal functioning of kidneys by treating conditions that hinder its processes. The conditions that fall under the scope of nephrology include:

  • Urine abnormalities such as excess excretion of protein, sugar, blood, casts, and crystals
  • Glomerular complications that affect the tiny filtering systems of the kidneys known the glomerulus
  • Cancers of the kidneys, bladder, and urethra
  • Acute, sudden, long-term or chronic Renal failure
  • Kidney infections
  • Effects of diseases like diabetes and hypertension on the kidneys
  • Acid-base fluctuations.
  • Kidney and bladder stones
  • Ill effects of toxins and drugs on the kidneys
  • Nephrotic syndrome and nephritis
  • Renal vascular diseases that disturb the blood vessel networks within the kidneys.
  • Tubulointerstitial diseases affecting the kidneys tubules
  • Autoimmune diseases including lupus and autoimmune vasculitis
  • Hydronephrosis
  • Dialysis and its associated long-term complications – hemodialysis as well as peritoneal dialysis
  • Renal Transplantations
  • Polycystic kidneys diseases in which large cysts or fluid-filled sacs grow within the kidney damaging its normal functioning – this may be congenital, inherited or genetic.
  • Anemia related to kidney disease.
  • Bone disease related to kidney disease