The Department of Nephrology focuses on ensuring the normal functioning of kidneys by treating conditions that hinder its processes. The various conditions that fall under the scope of nephrology include:
- Urine abnormalities such as excess excretion of protein, sugar, blood, casts, and crystals
- Glomerular complications that affect the tiny filtering systems of the kidneys known the glomerulus
- Cancers of the kidneys, bladder, and urethra
- Acute, sudden, long-term or chronic Renal failure
- Kidney infections
- Nephrotic syndrome and nephritis
- Renal vascular diseases that disturb the blood vessel networks within the kidneys.
- Tubulointerstitial diseases affecting the kidneys tubules
- Autoimmune diseases including lupus and autoimmune vasculitis
- Hydronephrosis
- Dialysis and its associated long-term complications – hemodialysis as well as peritoneal dialysis
- Renal Transplantations
