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Departments & Divisions Nephrology
Dialysis Lankenau Hospital provides acute inpatient hemodialysis and acute peritoneal dialysis. Continuous arteriovenous hemodialysis is available for critically ill patients with acute renal failure. Chronic hemodialysis and chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis are provided at Lankenau to outpatients with chronic end-stage renal failure. Patients in these outpatient Dialysis Units are supervised by registered nurses. A home training program is provided for patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). Transplant Nephrology Our Physicians... ###
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The Physicians in the Nephrology Division at Lankenau Hospital offer advanced techniques in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension and medical kidney problems including chronic and
acute renal disorders, nephrolithiasis (kidney stones), diabetic nephropathy, renal failure, difficult-to-control hypertension,
and certain complications of pregnancy. Persons with advanced kidney failure are treated in dialysis units available to inpatients
and outpatients at Lankenau Hospital. The division also manages a home peritoneal dialysis program, and the medical portion
of the Lankenau Hospital Renal Transplant Program for kidney transplants. The program, with the Lankenau Medical Research
Center, is one of only 15 centers in the National Institutes of Health’s seven year HEMO study, the largest-ever study of
hemodialysis. The “Hemodialysis Efficiency and Membrane Outcome” study is designed to find the ideal balance of therapy, cost
and results for dialysis patients. (See also Renal Transplant Program under Hospital-Based Services and Programs.)