Medical Departments
Nephrology Department
Services:
- Post Kidney or kidney-pancreas transplant patients.
- adults with chronic kidney diseases (CKD) either early or late.
- Patients with end stage kidney disease on chronic dialysis
- primary kidney disease or secondary to systemic diseases as autoimmune (glomerular disease)
- Patients with complicated or uncontrolled hypertension
- Diabetic kidney disease; with diabetes more than 5 years or presence of protein in urine or infection of urinary tract
- Patients with genetic renal diseases such as polycystic kidney disease
- Patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) or rising serum creatinine
- Electrolyte (e.g. sodium, potassium, calcium) and acid-base abnormalities
- High risk pregnancy patients – most notably women with pregnancy complicated by urinary tract infection, hypertension or pre-eclampsia, with CKD or who have received a kidney transplant and become pregnant; and diabetic patients particularly, those with type 1 diabetes mellitus who become pregnant
- Patients with recurrent kidney or ureteric stone
- Urinary tract infection e.g. cystitis, pyelonephritis
- Patients with genetic renal diseases such as polycystic kidney disease
- Patients with edematous states
- Patients identified with CKD, hematuria or proteinuria