Deepam Gudvanchery hospital plays an important role in offering comprehensive care for patients with kidney disease including Renal induced Hypertensive Emergencies. The Department of Nephrology is a Super-Specialty department which deals with the medical management of kidney diseases.
Department of Nephrology (Department of Kidney / Renal disease management) provides a complete range of consultative, diagnostic and treatment services for patients with kidney diseases.
The scope of care encompasses various stages of kidney diseases right from earliest detectable changes in kidney function through end-stage kidney disease, as well as people with high blood pressure, kidney stones, and other kidney-related disorders like Acute Renal Failure, Chronic Kidney Disease.
The hospital offers convenient and quick facility for bed side dialysis across all ICU beds, for patients recuperating in the ICU no more shifting for dialysis.
Our team at Department of Nephrology consists of Senior Consultants with vast experience in management & treatment of Renal Disorders, well trained and customer focused paramedics / dialysis technicians.
Services
The department deals with the diagnosis and management of :
Hypertension: Primary and Secondary
Acute Kidney Failure
Chronic Kidney Disease
Urinary Tract Infections
Diabetic Nephropathy
End Stage Renal Disease
Proteinuric Kidney Diseases; Nephrotic Syndrome, Nephritic Syndrome, Acute Glomerulonephritis etc.
Electrolyte abnormalities
Acid Base Disturbances
Other kidney disorders
Recognized as Kidney Transplant Unit. Conducts Transplants only on Live - Related Donors.
Medical Management of Renal Transplant patients.
Dedicated unit for Haemodialysis
Acute and Chronic Renal failure
Acute Glomerulonephritis
Acute Nephrotic Syndrome
Hematuria its causes and treatment
Urinary Tract Infections
Renal Causes of Hypertension
Kidney stones and its medical management
Emergency Hemodialysis for Acute Renal failure.
Intermittent and continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal dialysis
Medical and Surgical management of Renal Cancers