Department Introduction

Nephrology

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Nephrology

Department Introduction

The CMUH Department of Nephrology was established in 1987. On July 30, 2008, it was integrated with Department of Urology to construct the Renal Medicine Centre.
 
 

The Department has outstanding treatment capacity of renal diseases, including the prevention and health education for chronic kidney disease, outpatient follow-up and holistic treatment of uremia (hemodialysis, hemofiltration, peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplant), to provide complete medical cares. At present, it actively develops home hemodialysis training program. Also, the Department supports cares for critical renal diseases, including the plasma exchange, hemoperfusion, intermittent and continuous renal support therapies, etc.

 

The Department has rich experiences in renal pathological section and specializes the treatments of glomerulus diseases and interstitial nephritis. It is the largest hemodialysis center and peritoneal dialysis center in the central Taiwan, a training hospitals for nephrology specialists and dialysis nurses, and a rental health promotion institution appointed by the Bureau of Health Promotion first. In addition, the Department has been the Chronic Kidney Disease Prevention and Control Institution based on the commission of Bureau of Health Promotion since December 30, 2003. It has not only the sound equipment but also a solid medical team. Moreover, it attends in international clinical trials actively.

 

The Department is an omnibearing medical care team of nephrology providing the excellent professional cares in the prevention of nephropathy, acute and chronic treatment, nephrotic rehabilitation, etc. The Renal Care Center provides the knowledge and matters of renal care and self-care for patients and their families, in order to relief their progress of renal diseases. In addition to the consulting of renal care, it also hold regular community screening and lectures of prevention and treatment of rental diseases and supplies low-protein lunch boxes.

Our Teams

Chiu-Ching Huang

Chiu-Ching Huang

Consultant
Renal transplantation Dialysis Chronic kidney disease
Ping-Chin Lai

Ping-Chin Lai

Vice Superintendent
Dr. Ping-Chin Lai specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of kidney diseases; including kidney transplantation, acute and chronic kidney disease, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, hypertension, and diabetes. Dean Lai has extensive experience in kidney transplantation and is good at other kidney-related diseases. Kidney disease usually manifests in hematuria, proteinuria, electrolyte abnormalities, edema, and accompanying hypertension; patients with chronic renal failure (referred to as chronic renal failure) must be considered for hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, or kidney transplantation.
Hung-Chieh Yeh

Hung-Chieh Yeh

Director
Dr. Hung-Chieh Yeh specializes in the diagnoses and treatments of acute and chronic kidney diseases including common kidney diseases, nephropathy, glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, acute kidney failure and chronic kidney diseases. Dr. Hung-Chieh Yeh received complete training of nephrology in National Taiwan University Hospital. Generally speaking, kidney diseases are usually accompanied with the symptoms such as hematuria, proteinuria, electrolyte imbalance, edema and hypertension. The patients with chronic kidney failure should consider the treatments like dialysis, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and the dialysis for critical illness. Dr. Hung-Chieh Yeh is also an expert in this field.
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