Nephrology Department 2

The subspecialty was established in 2013, focusing on bedside hemofiltration for severe kidney disease and critically ill patients. It has 24 regular beds, 6 intensive-care beds, 8 bedside hemofiltration machines, and 1 bedside online hemodialysis machine. It has achieved good results in diagnosing and treating various difficult and critical kidney diseases, including acute kidney failure and critical complications and comorbidities of uremia.

The subspecialty’s distinctive techniques include surgery for various arteriovenous fistulas and management of their complications, as well as peritoneal dialysis catheterization, especially catheterization techniques for complex cases and pediatric patients. The youngest patient receiving peritoneal dialysis catheterization was a 3-year-old child, while the oldest patient was 93 years old and received peritoneal dialysis. These services are at an advanced level in Dalian and Liaoning Province.

The subspecialty’s bedside blood-purification treatment team has long been dedicated to bedside blood purification for critically ill patients. Team members have repeatedly trained at advanced centers in China and continuously explored and updated their practice. Using various blood-purification modalities, including double-filtration plasmapheresis, immunoadsorption, and various hybrid blood-purification modes, they provide blood-purification treatment for critically ill patients with acute renal failure, severe infection, refractory heart failure, severe liver failure, immune diseases including autoimmune encephalitis and systemic lupus erythematosus, poisoning, and for children, achieving good therapeutic effects. The diagnosis and treatment of hereditary kidney diseases, especially autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, are at a leading level nationwide. The subspecialty has professional renal dietitians to support the diagnosis and treatment of various kidney diseases.

In research, the subspecialty has achieved good results in chronic kidney disease diagnostic biomarkers, mechanisms of renal aging, and the pathogenesis of polycystic kidney disease, receiving funding from national, provincial, and municipal sources. In addition to regular expert clinics, the subspecialty also runs a dedicated peritoneal dialysis clinic and a dedicated renal nutrition clinic to better serve patients with kidney disease.