Patients with all types of kidney (renal) and hypertension-related disorders receive advanced, comprehensive and compassionate care from our Abbottabad Medical Complex specialists who is a doctor who specializes in kidney health and kidney disease.
Nephrology encompasses a wide range of medical disciplines, including:
• The study of normal kidney function
• The causes and diagnoses of kidney diseases
• The treatment of acute or chronic kidney diseases
• The preservation of kidney function
• Kidney transplantation
• blood or protein in urine
• chronic kidney disease
• kidney stones, although a urologist may also treat this
• kidney infections
• kidney swelling due to glomerulonephritis or interstitial nephritis
• kidney cancer
• polycystic kidney disease
• hemolytic uremic syndrome
• renal artery stenosis
• nephritic syndrome
• end-stage kidney disease
• kidney failure, both acute and chronic
Nephrologists also perform, oversee, or assist in other procedures to either manage or treat kidney disorders. These include:
• Percutaneous needle biopsy
• Kidney ultrasonography
• Bone biopsy
• Kidney dialysis
• Kidney transplants