Services We Provide
Our practice provides a wide range of clinical services including:
Comprehensive Evaluation and Treatment of Hypertension
Achieving optimum blood pressure control reduces the risk of kidney diseases and death from strokes and heart disease. Treatment of hypertension requires a multifaceted approach including:
- Medications
- Dietary modification
- Exercise program
The evaluation will include 24 hours Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring as well as consultation with a certified Hypertension Specialist.
Consultative General Nephrology
- Kidney complications of diabetes mellitus and hypertension
- Inflammatory diseases affecting the kidney such as systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Fluid and electrolyte disorders such as abnormal blood levels of sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium levels.
- Acute and chronic kidney failure, volume overload from kidney diseases, and other edematous states.
- Acute kidney injury from medications, infection, and other causes.
Chronic Kidney Disease Clinic
Monitoring kidney function and treatment of chronic kidney disease to reduce complications and progression to kidney failure.
Evaluation and Treatment of Kidney Stones
Patients who form stones are at risk of developing stones in the future. Although lithotripsy or surgical removal of stones provides immediate relief, the fundamentals of treatment require careful medical evaluation and risk stratification to prevent new stone formation.
Chronic Kidney Failure Requiring Dialysis Treatment
There are various methods of treating patients with end stage kidney disease (chronic kidney failure.) Treatment includes in-center hemodialysis, home hemodialysis, and peritoneal dialysis. Kidney transplantation, however, is the best treatment option. Early evaluation and timely referral for kidney transplantation is the desired objective.
We treat a wide range of medical conditions including:
- Acute and chronic kidney diseases
- Kidney failure
- Glomerulonephritis
- Protein in the urine
- Hypertension
- Blood in the urine or hematuria
- Urinary tract infections
- Kidney stones
- Diabetes mellitus
- Diabetic nephropathy (kidney damage resulting from diabetes mellitus)
- IgA nephropathy
- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
- Anemia
- Kidney cancer
- Bone and mineral disorders
- Vitamin D metabolism
- Acute interstitial nephritis
- Electrolyte disturbances of calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, phosphate
- Systemic lupus erthematosus
- Acute tubular necrosis
- Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis
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