NEPHROLOGY DEPARTMENT

Department of Nephrology specializes in all aspects of kidney diseases and related problems.Our mission is to provide outstanding clinical care with utmost patient safety and convenience, at an affordable price. We provide world-class, personalized health care services with utmost safety and convenience at a very affordable cost in all aspects of nephrology including:clinical nephrology, kidney transplant (ABO compatible and non compatible), hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and critical care nephrology. The department of nephrology and kidney transplantation provides comprehensive health care for patients with different types of kidney diseases like acute or chronic kidney failure, kidney diseases due to diabetes mellitus, hypertension, kidney stone disease, infections, hereditary illnesses and poisonings etc.Cost of all the procedures are either at par or less than Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Medical Sciences Lucknow. 

The Nephrology department is managed by a team of highly experienced and dedicated Nephrologist Dr.Shashank Gupta, D.N.B. (Nephrology), MNAMS, S.C.E. Nephrology(U.K.) who specializes in Clinical Nephrology,Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation. 

Nephrology Department in Sahara hospital is fully equipped with all the latest and advance equipments and internationally designed Dialysis unit to offer services relted to chronic kidney diseases stage. Sevices include:

·         Diagnosis and treatment of all type of kidney disease in adult and children     

·         Hemodialysis including Bed Side Hemodialysis, Slow Efficiency Hemodialysis (SLED) and    Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT).·       

·         Peritoneal Dialysis    

·         Kidney biopsy     

·         Vascular access creation (AV fistula, tunelled and temporary dialysis catheter insertion).

·         kidney transplant (ABO compatible and incompatible)

Dialysis Facility for Covid Patients

 Dialysis for critically sick patients in ICU is our special area of interest. We offer services of all types of hemodialysis including Continuous Renal Replacement therapy (CRRT) like continuous venovenous hemodialysis (CVVHD) and hemofiltration (CVVHDF), Slow Efficiency Hemodialysis (SLED) round the clock. We have portable water plant, which can deliver ultra pure water for hemodialysis at the bedside of patient for bedside dialysis. We have special interest in bedside conventional hemodialysis, Slow Efficiency Hemodialysis (SLED) and Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) and Continuous Cyclic Peritoneal Dialysis (CCPD) in critically sick patients at ICU

Peritoneal dialysis including Intermittent Peritoneal dialysis (IPD), Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) and Continuous Cyclic Peritoneal Dialysis (CCPD).

Clinical Expertise: A team of experts provides compassionate and the best possible care for each of our patients. We utilize the most sophisticated diagnostic procedures and the latest surgical techniques to treat all Nephrological disorders.

Facilities Available 

Renal Medicine Sahara Hospital provides facilities for diagnosis and treatment for all types of renal diseases in adult and children. We have expertise for doing kidney biopsies and all type of vascular access procedures like Arteriovenous Fistula (AVF), Arteriovenous Shunts (AVS), Internal Juglar Catherterization (IJV), Subclavian Catheterization and Permacath insertion. We have facilities for peritoneal catheter insertion. We have a team of experts who are interested in dealing with complicated vascular access and peritoneal dialysis related problems.

Dialysis Center Dialysis is a procedure done to purify the blood by removing the toxic substances. There are two types of dialysis: hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, both of which are available at the Sahara Hospital under the direct supervision of experts in this field. Sahara Hospital has state of art hemodialysis unit having eight 4008 Artplus hemodialysis machines, a Multifiltrate machine for continuous renal replacement therapy and a 500 liter/ hour capacity Aqua B Water treatment unit for hemodialysis. Beside this, Sahara Hospital also have a WTS 300 H portal water treatment system for bedside hemodialysis and slow low efficiency dialysis in intensive care unit for critically sick patients. At Sahara Hospital we have round the clock facilities for the care of all type of patient with kidney problem including critically sick patients in ICU and patients with multi-organ failure. We provide conventional as well as slow low efficiency dialysis (SLED), continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), like Continuous Veno-Venous Hemodialysis (CVVHD), Continuous Veno-Venous Hemodiafiltration (CVVHDF) and Slow Continuous Ultrafiltration (SCUF) and Plasmaphresis. We use dialyser reuse programme after reprocessing with renatron. We offer hemodialysis to hepatitis B and hepatitis C patients in isolation unit. We also have round the clock facilities for manual as well as cycler assisted intermittent peritoneal dialysis, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and continuous cyclic peritoneal dialysis (CCPD). All the dialysis procedures are done by qualified, competent, highly experienced and dedicated technicians and nurses under direct supervision of highly qualified and dedicated Nephrologists. Our hospital has all the newer as well as established diagnostic modalities used in nephrology. We are now doing Kidney Transplant at a very affordable rate and accepting first degree blood relatives (mother, father, son, daughter, brother, sister) and spouse (Husband, wife) as kidney donor.