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Some of the conditions we treat include:

• Nephritis
• Nephrosis
• Hypertension
• Electrolyte disorders
• Disorders of calcium and phosphorus metabolism
• Urinary tract infection
• Kidney stone disease
• Nutrition and growth disorders related to kidney disease
• Kidney failure

Causes of Kidney Failure

Children's kidney diseases that can progress to moderate or severe kidney failure include:

Congenital Kidney Disease:

• Anatomic deformities of the posterior urethral valves or bladder
• Reflux nephropathy, a failure of the bladder's valve mechanism that results in urine backing up into the kidney
• Renal dysplasia, or abnormal growths in the kidneys

Genetic, or Inherited, Disease:

• Polycystic kidney disease, numerous cysts in both kidneys that destroy normal kidney tissue
• Alport's syndrome
• Congenital nephrotic syndrome, resulting from damage to the kidneys' filtering structures, called glomeruli

Acquired Glomerulonephritis, or inflammation of the glomeruli, the kidneys' filtering units:

• Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, or scarring of the glomeruli
• Vasculitis (Wegener's granulomatosus, polyarteritis nodosa, SLE)
• IgA nephropathy
• Chronic glomerulonephritis
• Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
• Henoch schonlein purpura