Kidney Care

Leading Nephrology Care in Northern Louisiana

If you’ve been diagnosed with a kidney condition, or if your doctor suspects you might have one, you need expert care and treatment. That’s what you can expect from our dedicated team of board-certified general nephrologists, transplant nephrologists, interventional nephrologists, clinical nurse specialists, renal dietitians, pharmacists and social workers.

At Ochsner LSU Health - Monroe Medical Center, patients now have access to nephrology and hemodialysis services, including round-the-clock inpatient hemodialysis services for both maintenance and medical emergencies. Our onsite team of kidney specialists provides the care our community needs, with a four-bed inpatient dialysis unit and round-the-clock nephrology consulting services.

Kidney Conditions We Treat

We offer complete care for kidney diseases so you can live a healthy and productive life. Our expert kidney doctors use advanced technology and approaches to successfully treat a wide range of kidney conditions, including:

• Acute and chronic kidney disease
• Critical care nephrology (kidney care)
• Dialysis access
• Electrolyte disorders (imbalances of calcium, magnesium, potassium and other electrolytes), glomerulonephritis, inflammation of the part of the kidney that filters blood
• Issues relating to transplants of kidneys and/or other organs
• Kidney complications caused by cancer and its treatment
• Kidney failure
• Kidney stones
• Renal hypertension (high blood pressure caused by kidney disease)
• Vasculitis, inflammation of the blood vessels of the kidney

Kidney Treatment Options

Some of the many diagnostic and treatment options we offer for kidney diseases include:

• Hemodialysis, a treatment to filter waste and water from your blood, that is done in an inpatient setting
• At-home dialysis
• Peritoneal dialysis, an alternative form of dialysis that uses the lining of your belly to filter the blood
• Catheter placement for both hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
• Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), a form of dialysis in which the blood is filtered 24 hours a day
• Thrombolysis and angioplasty, which are procedures to remove blood clots and other blockages from blood vessel access sites in dialysis
• Kidney biopsies to help diagnose kidney disorders
• Stent placement if your dialysis access becomes narrowed or blocked
• Kidney imaging, including image-guided procedures