Medical speciality within the field of Internal Medicine that studies the renal structure and function, both in health and illness, including the prevention and treatment of renal disease (kidney).
Control core conditions such as:
- High blood pressure.
- Diabetes mellitus.
- Adequate monitoring of urological afflictions such as conditions affecting the prostate, renal lithiasis (kidney stones), urethral stenosis, etc.
- Monitoring of babies with low birth weight.
- Giving up smoking.
- Controlling obesity.
- Adequate use of Nephrotoxins.
- Readjustment of medication for the elderly.
- Monitoring of patients with just one kidney.
- Monitoring of patients with a family or personal background of kidney disease
- (lithiasis, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, Alport Syndrome).
- Early remission of nephrology.
Professionals
Here at the Hospital IMED Levante, we have a team of medical professionals specialising in Nephrology.