SKC provides the largest and only full-service integrated holistic nephrology care in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Offering all modalities of kidney care to patients with any form of kidney problem.
34 physicians and over 250 specialised nurses and other staff dedicated to the care of patients with kidney disease.
Note that SKC offer almost exclusively HDF rather than HD.This has been shown to have a 23% improvement in mortality over HD alone (Blankestijn, P. J., Vernooij, R. W. M., Hockham, C., Strippoli, G. F. M., Canaud, B., Hegbrant, J., Barth, C., Covic, A., Cromm, K., Cucui, A., Davenport, A., Rose, M., Török, M., Woodward, M., & Bots, M. L. (2023). Effect of Hemodiafiltration or Hemodialysis on Mortality in Kidney Failure. New England Journal of Medicine, 389(8), 700–709. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2304820)
SKC uniquley offers all of these kidney care services:
- Care to ANY patient with kidney problems in Abu Dhabi.
We have speciality clinics for patients with these problems:
- Care of early chronic kidney disease to prevent progression.
- Acute kidney injury
- Calcium/phosphate/magnesium problems
- Connective tissue diseases ( eg lupus, sarcoid etc)
- Diabetic kidney disease
- Dialysis
- Genetic and inherited kidney disease ( eg polycystic kidney disease, Tuberous sclerosis, Frabry disease and many more)
- Glomerululonephritis ( eg IgA nephropathy, Membranous GN, Focal Segmental glomerulusclerosis, C3 Nephropathy, prolifereative GN and many others)
- Hypertension (high blood pressure)
- Kidney stones
- Liver and kidney disorders
- Obstetric nephrology
- Onconephrology ( for patients with kidney problems related to cancer or its treatment)
- Potassium disorders
- Sodium problems (hyponatremia, hypernatremia)
- Vascular disease
- Vasculitis (inflammation of blood vessels)
- Viral infection affecting the kidney (hepatitis B, HIV, HCV and others)
- All forms of kidney replacement therapy (dialysis) including
- All haemodialysis (HD) modalities
- In-centre out-patient (haemodialysis (HD) and haemodialfiltration (HDF))
- In-patient acute and chronic HD/HDF/continnuous renal replacement therapes (CRRT)
- Home based assisted HD/HDF
- Overnight long hours HD/HDF.
- All peritoneal dialysis modalities
- Automated peritoneal dialysis (APD)
- Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD)
- Intermittent peritoneal dialysis (IP)
- Hybrid therapy
- Ultrafiltration for heart failure.
- Other extracorporeal therapies eg plasma exchange
- Continuous renal replacement advice and therapies where needed
- Slow low efficiency dialysis (SLED)
- Slow continuous ultrafiltration (SCUF)
- Kidney Transplantation (with our partners in the transplant institute based at SKMC)
- Live donor kidney transplantation
- Deceased donor kidney transplantation
- Paired exchange transplant programs
- ABO incompatible treatments if needed.
- Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) and SKC/SKMC provide more transplants to patients than any other units in the UAE.
- Transplantation surgery is performed mostly in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC) by a dedicated transplant surgery team.
- SKC offers training to new nephrologists as the only training centre for Nephrology in Abu Dhabi
SKC developed
- World leading in-house expert and intelligent IT systems. Our dialysis machines are connected to the electronic medical record to monitor all patients in real-time, computer analytics to guarantee that our highly experienced physicians obtain a complete and accurate picture of the patient’s case.
- Research and innovation projects
- World leading mineral lab looking at nono-particle mineral transport
- Effects of sleep on dialysis patients
- Machine learning on dialysis patients to predict admission
- Gum Arabic effects on renal function
- Primary care intervention studies
- Access to many cutting edge therapies
- Including new complement blockers
No other service in the UAE provides this level and quality of kidney care for all kidney problems to ensure patients receive the best care available.
