Services provided by Division of Nephrology

Fatima Memorial Hospital has a well-established Department of Nephrology, providing all types of services related to Nephrology.  Patients are provided quality services in clinical nephrology, dialysis and other procedures related to Nephrology.  More than 6000 patients per year are catered to in inpatient and outpatient departments. We have performed more than 800 biopsies over the last 10 years and more than 500 dialysis sessions are performed every month. Peritoneal Dialysis is a newly developed section with currently 11 patients enrolled in the program.  It is one of the 5 centers in Pakistan which is offering peritoneal dialysis. We are an active research-oriented department with more than ten research publications to our credit.

1. Clinical Nephrology:

    Evaluation and management of diseases related to kidney;

   1. Acute Kidney Injury
   2. Chronic Kidney Disease
   3. Glomerulonephritis
   4. Electrolyte, Acid Base disturbances
   5. Kidney Transplantation
   6. Metabolic Diseases including Diabetic Kidney Disease
   7. Evaluation and management of Hypertension
2. Dialysis
   1. Hemodialysis
      1. Acute Emergency Hemodialysis as an Inpatient
      2. Maintenance Hemodialysis as an Outpatient
      3. Slow Dialysis for acutely ill patients in ICU
   2. Peritoneal Dialysis
      1. Acute Peritoneal Dialysis
      2. Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD)
3. Procedures
   1. Temporary Hemodialysis Catheter for acute Hemodialysis
   2. Permanent Hemodialysis Catheter for Maintenance Hemodialysis under fluoroscopic guidance
   3. Kidney Biopsies under Real Time Ultrasound guidance
   4. CAPD catheter Insertion under fluoroscopic guidance