Renal Center
Success Story of a Children's Hospital
Melanie
Melanie's family was surprised to find her pneumonia was so severe that it had spread toxins throughout her body which caused her to go into septic shock.
The Pediatric Renal Center at Miller Children’s Hospital provides a multi-disciplinary and multi-specialty approach for consultation, diagnostic testing and medical management of children with congenital and acquired kidney disease. The Nephrology Center has an expert staff that treats children ages birth through 21 years of age. Each patient receives a comprehensive care plan that manages a child’s symptoms from diagnosis to treatment by a specialized care team, often working closely with other board-certified pediatric sub-specialists.
Pediatric nephrologists at Miller Children’s complete clinical evaluations and order renal procedures, such as renal biopsies and renal ultrasounds. Some common tests preformed include x-rays, blood tests and other diagnostic procedures to help diagnose and treat various kidney conditions, such as hypertension, end stage renal, kidney failure and polycystic kidney disease (PKD). The Renal Center provides renal dialysis and offers a kidney transplant preparation program. The nephrologist also diagnoses and manages acute and chronic disorders of the genitourinary system, including urinary tract infections.
Designated CCS Center
The Renal Center is an approved CCS Special Care Center for Renal Dialysis. The Renal Center provides a wide range of medical services for children with chronic renal failure and complex renal diseases.
Miller Children’s Stands Apart
- Miller Children’s Hospital is one of the few hospitals in the area to provide renal replacement therapy as young as 2 years old.
- Continuous renal therapy care is provided to critically ill newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
- Kidney disease affects many systems in the body, so it’s important that patients are treated at Miller Children’s, where they have access to all of Miller Children’s pediatric sub-specialists, who cover more than 30 specialties.
Miller Children's Hospital Long Beach
2801 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA 90806
(562) 933-5437
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