The Nephrology Division at Massachusetts General Hospital is a leading provider of services for patients with kidney disease, including diagnosis and management of kidney diseases and medical management of renal transplantation.
The mission of the Nephrology Division is to provide the highest level of patient care, expand the frontiers of basic and clinical investigation in nephrology, and enhance and support state-of-the-art training and education. Located on the hospital's main campus, we treat over 6,500 patients per year in our ambulatory clinic.
U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks the Nephrology Division among the top five renal services in the nation. Comprehensive nephrology services offered at Mass General, include:
- Hemodialysis
- Transplantation
- Chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
- Continuous veno-venous hemodialysis
- Interventional nephrology (renal artery stenosis and dialysis access)
Specialized clinics are offered to treat common kidney-related diagnoses. This include clinics for hypertension, inherited kidney diseases, kidney stones, nephritis and vasculitis, early renal failure, continuous ambulatory perintoneal dialysis and renal transplantation. A multidisciplinary end stage renal disease program staffed by members of the Nephrology Division and Transplant Unit, provides comprehensive and cohesive quality care to patients at all phases of their renal disease, from the earliest signs of renal impairment to vascular access care, transplantation and post transplantation management.
Our staff of approximately 100 dedicated clinicians, scientists, educators and administrators, make up the Division. Thirty-six basic and clinical faculty and over 45 postdoctoral fellows and graduate students comprise our clinical and research staff. All faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students have concurrent appointments at Harvard Medical School.
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