U.S. News & World Report has named our Nephrology department as one of the top 10 pediatric nephrology programs in the country and we couldn’t be more proud. The department consists of a nephrology clinic, nephrology testing services, and an End Stage Renal Disease Program, which includes inpatient and outpatient hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Here [...]
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Two brothers, One diagnosis – Part 2
With the help of the Nephrology team at Children’s, Maria Alias and her husband came up with a treatment plan that would allow their two sons with kidney failure, Najib and Safie, to maintain as regular lives as possible. They elected for both of them to do peritoneal dialysis at home every night while they [...]
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Experts, Nephrology, Patient Features
Two brothers, One Diagnosis – Part 1
Maria Alias had no idea what nephrophthisis meant when she brought her two sons, Safie and Najib, from Malaysia to America in 2005. But she learned very quickly in the summer of 2011. The boys’ father noticed that Najib, then 6, had uncontrollable tremors in his hands one morning in July when Maria was out [...]
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The Nephrology Department at Children's Medical Center has one of the largest pediatric dialysis programs in the nation, has supported the care of more than 400 kidney transplants and is part of the NIH Research Core.
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