Conditions and Treatments
Pediatric Services
Related Programs
Classes and Support
The kidney/nephrology specialists at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin, provide a complete range of consultative, diagnostic and treatment services for patients with kidney diseases. The scope of care encompasses all stages of kidney disease, from earliest detectable changes in kidney function through end-stage renal disease.
Conditions
Our specialists evaluate, manage and treat a wide range of conditions, medical complications and types of patients, including the following:
- Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), including education about target blood pressure goals, management of proteinuria, and clinical care of co-morbid conditions associated with chronic kidney disease
- Hypertension
- Kidney Disease
Additional Conditions
- Acute kidney failure, including electrolyte and acid-based disturbances
- Intrinsic kidney diseases, including diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive kidney disease, glomerulonephritis and chronic pyelonephritis, with an emphasis on slowing the progression of kidney disease
- Proteinuria (protein in the urine) and hematuria (blood in the urine)
- Anemia related to kidney disease
- Bone disease related to kidney disease
- Fluid and electrolyte disorders, including edema, potassium, acid-base and calcium disorders
- Coordinated care and follow-up for patients with kidney disease associated with diabetes, high blood pressure or cardiovascular and kidney disease
Treatments, Procedures and Services
- Dialysis
- Continuous renal replacement therapy, including citrate anticoagulation for critically ill patients
- Comprehensive dialysis services and chronic dialysis outpatient care
- Chronic peritoneal dialysis care, including continuous cycling peritoneal dialysis (CCPD) or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD)
- Percutaneous needle biopsy of native kidneys and kidney transplants using real-time ultrasound guidance
- Percutaneous cannula placement using ultrasound guidance
- Access to dialysis and transplant services for patients with end-stage renal disease
- Access to all end-stage renal disease therapies, including kidney transplantation, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
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Percutaneous kidney biopsies, if needed
