Nephrology

The Department of Nephrology is a specialized department for the diagnosis and treatment of common diseases and difficult, critical, and severe conditions of the kidneys and urinary system. It is the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Kidney Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center and a key specialty of the autonomous region. The distinctive feature of the Department of Nephrology is that, while applying advanced domestic and international Western medical diagnostic and treatment technologies, it inherits and develops the advantages of the traditional Chinese medicine of our motherland in the treatment of kidney diseases, adopts a diagnostic and treatment approach that gives equal emphasis to Chinese and Western medicine, and serves the vast number of patients with kidney disease. The Department of Nephrology consists of the following departments: general outpatient clinic, specialist outpatient clinic, inpatient ward, Hemodialysis and Blood Purification Center, and Peritoneal Dialysis Room. It currently has 45 medical and nursing staff members, including 3 physicians with doctoral degrees, 9 with master's degrees, and 2 national-level inheritors of the academic experience of renowned senior traditional Chinese medicine practitioners; in addition, it has specially appointed 1 nationally renowned traditional Chinese medicine physician, Professor Zhang Xingping. The ward has 30 designated beds; the Hemodialysis and Blood Purification Center is equipped with 50 hemodialysis machines, 11 hemodiafiltration machines, and 1 bedside hemofiltration machine. The Peritoneal Dialysis Room is equipped with 3 automated peritoneal dialysis machines.