Pediatric Nephrology
The UIC Children’s Kidney Center of Illinois offers comprehensive services to children and adolescents with kidney and urological medical problems. The Preventive Pediatric Renal, Cardiac, and Hypertension Clinic focuses on early intervention for children with kidney diseases. Special focus is on conditions that contribute to kidney problems (such as high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus). Treatment includes family education on dietary management, exercise and drug therapy.
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- Collaboration with top-ranked UIC College of Pharmacy gives Children’s Hospital University of Illinois patients access to the best, most advanced medicines
- Expert care begins with neonatal nephrology; clinic serves all children with chronic kidney disease or kidney failure
- Children’s Hospital University of Illinois offers hypertension related kidney disease prevention program for obese children; obesity is a risk factor for chronic kidney disease and our team does a comprehensive evaluation of obese patients to determine if they are at risk for chronic kidney disease
- Transition program and clinic offers comprehensive, long-term follow up for pediatric nephrology and transplant patients, ensuring no breaks in complex care or medical insurance. Experienced team includes pediatric and adult nephrologists, transplant surgeons, pediatric pharmacologists, pediatric dietician, transplant social workers, transplant coordinators, and transplant business managers.
- We provide acute hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.
- 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.
- We provide comprehensive care for pediatric kidney transplant recipients.
- We perform comprehensive genetic analysis for kidney diseases that run in families. With new genetic screening technologies, we can screen patients and their families for 380 genes that are associated with kidney disease. This genetic testing is covered at no cost to the patient.
- We provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary clinic with pediatric rheumatology for patients with kidney involvement associated with autoimmune disease.
- We provide a wide range of services for children with recurrent UTIs, kidney stones, nephrotic syndrome and glomerulonephritis.
