Frequently Asked Questions

Anyone with symptoms of kidney disease, such as difficulty urinating, blood in urine, swelling in the feet and ankles, or changes in urine output, should consider visiting the Nephrology department. Patients with high blood pressure or diabetes, which are common risk factors for kidney disease, may also benefit from a visit to the Nephrology department.

There are three main blood tests that will determine if a patient and a potential donor are a kidney match. They are blood typing, tissue typing and cross-matching.

Some people with kidney failure may be able to have a kidney transplant. During transplant surgery, a healthy kidney from a donor is placed into your body. The new, donated kidney does the work that your two kidneys used to do.

Dialysis is a treatment for people whose kidneys are failing. Dialysis does the work of your kidneys, removing waste products and excess fluid from the blood.

Doctors use a variety of tests to measure kidney function and diagnose kidney failure. Through blood tests, Advance imaging which can show kidney abnormalities or obstructions (blockages) and urine tests.

The most common causes of kidney failure are diabetes and high blood pressure. Sometimes, though, kidney failure happens quickly due to an unforeseen cause.

Kidney failure (also called renal failure) means one or both kidneys can no longer function well on their own.

Unless renal transplant is envisaged and planned patient has to be on maintenance dialysis either or hemodialysis.

Just follow the prescription and, if required by follow up teleconsultation.

MBBS graduates give primary care, and the practice of Internal medicine involves secondary care, and tertiary care is given by super-specialist.