The National Institutes of Health estimates that over 7 million adults have physiological evidence of chronic kidney disease.
The Polyclinic’s nephrology department specializes in kidneys and provides state-of-the-art diagnosis and treatment of kidney diseases, including the conditions these diseases can produce such as diabetes mellitus and polycystic kidney disease. All of the specialists are board certified nephrologists, which means they completed seven or more years of medical school and postgraduate training leading to Board Certification in Internal Medicine. Then, for at least two years, these nephrologists studied a broad range of kidney disorders and their effect on other body organs.
Patients are referred to these nephrologists in the cases of protein or blood found in the urine, severe high blood pressure, kidney stones, renal insufficiency or kidney failure. The Polyclinic nephrologists are skilled in working with patients and their physicians to prevent the development and progression of kidney disease in patients with diabetes and/or hypertension.
The Polyclinic nephrologists are experts in the comprehensive treatment of:
- Chronic kidney disease and end stage kidney disease
- Anemia associated with kidney disease
- Cystic diseases
- Kidney stones
- Dialysis
- Pre and post kidney transplant care
- Management of renal complications in pregnancy
- Acute kidney failure, including electrolyte and acid-based disturbance
- Intrinsic kidney diseases including the following, with an emphasis on slowing the progression of kidney disease
- Diabetic nephropathy
- Hypertensive kidney disease
- Glomerulonephritis
- Chronic pylonephritis
- Proteinuria (protein in the urine)
- Hematuria (blood in the urine)
- Bone disease related to kidney disease
- Fluid and electrolyte disorders, including edema, potassium, acid-based and calcium disorders
- Kidney disease associated with diabetes
