Kidney Conditions We Treat
University Health kidney specialists – nephrologists – treat adults and children throughout South Texas with varied levels of kidney disease. We apply our expertise to carefully and thoughtfully diagnose your condition and give you the treatment that’s best for you. We treat conditions including:
- Acute kidney failure
- Chronic kidney diseases
- Congenital and inherited kidney diseases, treated in conjunction with Children’s Health Kidney Center at University Children's Health
- Diabetic kidney disease
- Glomerulonephritis
- Hematuria (blood in the urine)
- Hypertension disorders (adults and children)
- Kidney cancer
- Kidney cysts
- Kidney infections
- Kidney stone disease, treated in conjunction with Urology
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Proteinuria (protein in the urine)
- Urinary tract infection
Glomerular Disease Clinic at Texas Diabetes Institute
We provide comprehensive care for patients with various glomerular diseases, including:
- Lupus nephritis
- ANCA-associated vasculitis
- IgA nephropathy
- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
- Membranous nephropathy
- Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
- Diabetic nephropathy
We believe in a multidisciplinary approach, where our faculty and fellows work closely with other clinical and laboratory services and referring physicians. We also participate in clinical trials designed to treat glomerular kidney diseases.
Referrals to our clinics come from large areas in South Texas as well as from nephrologists in San Antonio who refer complicated cases.
