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| Appointments: | (504) 896-9238 | | Office Hours: | 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday | | Locations: | Children's Hospital, Main Campus
Children's Hospital, Metairie Center
Children's Hospital Outpatient Center of Baton Rouge
Children's Hospital Burdin-Riehl Clinic in Lafayette |
Physicians:
Diego Aviles, MD, Director Matti Vehaskari, MD
Oluwatoyin Bamgbola, MD Franca Iorember, MD Alan M. Robson, MD |
The Nephrology Department offers full and comprehensive evaluation and treatment for children and adolescents with hypertension; kidney and urinary tract disorders such as nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, congenital malformations, cystic kidneys, and kidney failure; urinary tract infections; urine abnormalities such as protein or blood in urine; and fluid, electrolyte and acid-base disorders. All end-stage renal disease services, including all types of dialysis and kidney transplantation, are offered. Modern diagnostic evaluations, including ultrasound-guided kidney biopsies, kidney function studies, as well as radiological, power Doppler ultrasonographic, radioisotope and magnetic resonance imaging are available.
 | Diego Aviles, MD
Director, Nephrology, Children's Hospital New Orleans
Chief, Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Professor of Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Director of the Dialysis Unit, Children's Hospital New Orleans
Professional School: University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico Specialty Training: Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington D.C. Special Interests: Nephrotic syndrome, chronic renal failure, hypertension
In Area Since: 1994
In Practice Since: 1988
|  | Matti Vehaskari, MD
Pediatric Nephrologist, Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Director of the Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program, Children's Hospital
Professional School: University of Helsinki Medical School, Helsinki, Finland Specialty Training: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO Special Interests: Renal transplantation, nephrotic syndrome
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| Oluwatoyin F. Bamgbola, MD
Pediatric Nephrologist, Children's Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Specialty Training:
University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
Children's Hospital St. Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
Special Interests:
Kidney specialists |
| Franca Iorember, MD
Pediatric Nephrologist, Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Specialty Training
University of Jos, Nigeria
Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
|  | Alan Robson, MD
Senior Vice President and Medical Director
Pediatric Nephrologist, Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Professional School: University of Durham, New Castle-Upon-Tyne, England Specialty Training: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO Special Interests: Pediatric nephrology, hypertension, fluid and electrolyte management |
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