Introduction

The department has a well-established out patient clinic with dedicated haemodialysis facility in the OPD area itself. Eight dialysers are in use and more are under procurement. The department is supported by diagnostic services and other facilities like critical care, ambulatory and non-ambulatory peritoneal dialysis etc.  In co-ordination with the Department of Urology, this department is now poised to start its kidney transplant programme within three months, with sophisticated facilities for tissue matching and an elaborate schedule for post-operative follow-up care.

For the long time the people of North Karnataka region had been deprived of quality Nephrology care in an attempt to over come the immediate and life threatening complication of renal failure. Dialysis unit was started in KLES Hospital in 1987 and was shifted to the present location in the new KLES Hospital in September 1996. Presently the dialysis unit has 6 haemodialysis machines. There are 30 patients on regular maintenance haemodialysis.

The following treatment facilities are offered by the Department of Nephrology presently:

1. Intermittent Haemodialysis

2. Maintenance Haemodialysis

3. Intermittent peritoneal dialysis

4. Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis

5. Continuous Arterio Venous Haemodialysis (CAVHD)

6. Plasma Pheresis

We also take care of pediatric Nephrology cases, as there is no separate pediatric Nephrology Department We also take part in the critical care management of Incentive Care Patients. Our hospital is fully equipped to carry out renal transplant surgery and the first renal transplant surgery was carried out in December 1997.

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