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