Nephrology

The Nephrology Department at KIMS Hospitals in Electronic City works to change how kidney diseases are handled. They focus on stopping problems before they start diagnosing conditions and offering treatments. Their approach revolves around personalised care for each patient. They also let patients take part in cutting-edge research that could change kidney disease treatments in the future.

What Your Kidneys Do

Your kidneys don’t just produce urine. They handle a lot of important jobs to keep you healthy, including:

• Controlling your blood pressure
• Supporting bone health
• Helping your body make red blood cells
• Regulating fluid and mineral levels
• Removing drugs and toxins from your system

Our nephrologists focus on kidney health and make sure you receive excellent care. KIMS Hospitals in Electronic City serves as a well-known referral center for kidney diseases. Doctors from other places often send us difficult cases. Whether it is high blood pressure, an uncommon kidney disorder, or a typical kidney problem, we offer modern treatments that suit your condition.

What We Treat

1. Kidney Issues That Are Short-term or Long-term

• Acute Kidney Injury (AKI): This happens when kidney function drops over hours or days. It often results from dehydration significant blood loss serious infections, or sudden heart issues.
• Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD): When your kidneys lose their ability to work properly over a longer period of time. When we talk about India, if you have diabetes and/or high blood pressure you can be at risk for CKD.
• Kidney Failure: Your doctors may consider kidney failure as the last stage of CKD. It happens when your kidneys stop filtering blood. The only option left for you is either dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive.

2. Kidney Problems Linked to Other Health Issues

• Diabetic Nephropathy: Long-term diabetes damages the kidneys leading to protein loss through urine. This causes kidney function to weaken.
• Hypertension: Chronic kidney disease and high blood pressure affect each other. Together, they create a damaging cycle.
• Renal Artery Stenosis: The blood vessels that send blood to the kidneys become narrow. This lowers how well the kidneys work and makes controlling blood pressure difficult.

3. Issues with Your Kidney Structure and Function

• Glomerular Diseases: Glomeruli are filtering units of your kidney. Any issue with them can cause nephrotic syndrome or protein showing up in urine.
• Tubulointerstitial Kidney Problems: These diseases harm the tubes and nearby tissue of the kidneys. Over time, this reduces how well the kidneys work.
• Genetic Kidney Issues: People inherit these conditions like polycystic kidney disease which harm how kidneys work and their structure.

4. Kidney Stones and Blockages

• Kidney Stones: Solid mineral chunks form in the kidneys. They cause pain and may stop urine from passing.
• Kidney Blockages: Obstructions in the urine flow from kidneys occur when something blocks the tract. Kidney stones, tumours, blood clots, or birth defects can lead to this.

5. Caring for Children's Kidneys

• Kidney Problems in Children: Kids may deal with kidney troubles like nephrotic syndrome structural issues in the urinary tract, or defects present at birth.

6. Body Fluid and Acid-Base Disorders

• Electrolyte and Acid-Base Imbalances: Kidney issues often lead to these problems. They can affect body balance, nerves, or even how the heart beats.

Health Check Services

• Run blood tests
  • Do a full blood count (CBC) with detailed analysis
  • Test BUN and creatinine in the blood
  • Look at levels of sodium, potassium, chloride, glucose, calcium, phosphate, uric acid, and albumin.
• Check overall protein and cholesterol levels.
• Urinalysis and sediment examination to understand the type of disease affecting the kidneys
• Look at protein levels in urine as a clue about kidney issues by doing these:
  • Protein-to-creatinine ratio in urine
  • Microalbumin-to-creatinine ratio in urine
  • Protein measurement over 24 hours in urine
• Conduct imaging tests on the kidneys, like renal ultrasounds, kidney dopplers, CT scans, or magnetic resonance angiography. These help find kidney stones, blockages, problems in the urinary tract, kidney size, and similar concerns.

Treatment Options

• Diet Recommendations: A nutritionist skilled in kidney diseases provides guidance to maintain a diet that supports kidney health.
• Treatment with Medicines: Many kidney problems can be controlled well through basic medications, lifestyle improvements, diet adjustments and consistent check-ups.
• Dialysis Options: Dialysis clears waste from the blood when kidneys no longer function. At our center, we offer:
  • Hemodialysis done at set times
  • Ongoing renal replacement therapies
  • Choices like continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and automated peritoneal dialysis
• Kidney Stone Removal Surgery: Doctors use open surgery or less invasive methods to take out kidney or urethral stones. The type of surgery depends on your health and the stone's size or location. Some less invasive options to remove the stones include:
  • Ureteroscopy with Laser Lithotripsy
  • Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (PCNL)
• Nephrectomy: This procedure removes a kidney that is damaged or not healthy anymore. Doctors recommend removing a kidney because of cancer or a serious infection.
• Kidney Transplant: Surgeons replace a failing kidney with a healthy one taken from a donor. Donors may be relatives or deceased individuals. Your doctor performs a donor nephrectomy with techniques like keyhole procedures or laparoscopy. It allows quicker recovery. For recipients, we commonly use open methods or robotic tools. Patients take immunosuppressants for life to stop the body from rejecting the new kidney. Kidney transplants bring hope to patients on dialysis. They can avoid dialysis and live a life that feels close to normal.

Why Choose Us to Treat Kidney Issues?

Experienced Professionals

At KIMS Hospitals in Electronic City certified you will get access to our nephrologists excel in their field. They have extensive knowledge with experience in treating all types of kidney-related problems. They combine their skills with a compassionate attitude and focus on designing treatments that suit each patient's unique condition.

The team has over 25 years of expertise in kidney transplants. They have performed more than 1000 transplants, including ABO incompatible deceased donor sensitised patients and pediatric cases. Their success rates match those of the top transplant centres.

New Tools and Advanced Treatments

As a medical centre linked to academics, we focus on developing better treatments to help kidney disease patients. We use modern tools and methods that might not be available in most hospitals.

Full Range of Care

We are one of the leading nephrology hospitals in Bengaluru. We are here to guide you through every phase of managing your kidney disease to get the best possible outcomes. From spotting early symptoms to handling advanced cases, we provide comprehensive care comparable to international standards. We offer services to detect kidney problems and manage kidney failure through dialysis and transplants.