Nephrology Institute – The Shyla and Aric Samson Center for Nephrology and Hypertension

Location

Main internal road in front of the outpatient clinics building

Hemodialysis Unit                                                     

 972-8-6745761                                    

The Renewed Shyla and Aric Samson Center for Nephrology and Hypertension

Activity

The team of the nephrology unit serves the hospital departments and the community of Ashkelon and the surrounding areas. We give consultations for all renal diseases and control of hypertension, and offer dialysis to patients with end stage renal disease.

The medical staff of the nephrology institute run the hemodialysis unit at the Barzilai medical center, and in addition, they are responsible for the community dialysis centers in the cities of Ashkelon, Ashdod and Kiryat Gat.

End stage renal failure is treated by hemodialysis and in certain cases by peritoneal dialysis. Patients who need hemodialysis undergo arterio-venous shunt procedure, and usually remain for observation of one day in the hospital before being released. Peritoneal dialysis is performed by insertion of dialysis catheter into the peritoneal cavity.

Hypertension is one of most important risk factors and it is called the silent killer. Prof Yagil runs the hypertension clinic and is involved in research on hypertension, diabetes and renal disease. Prof Yagil is also the head of the Center of the Israel Rat Genome for research on the genetics of hypertension.

Research

The nephrology staff is involved in basic research on the genetic basis of complicated diseases, including kidney diseases, diabetes and hypertension. In addition, the medical staff is involved in many national and international researches on new drugs for treatment of diabetic nephropathy, IgA nephropathy, autosomal polycystic kidney and others.

Research team

Vardiman Noa'h – in charge of clinical research

Cahana Irena – clinical research coordinator

Agronovich Irena – in charge of the zoo-technical laboratory

Outpatient clinics

Nephrology and hypertension clinic

Pre-dialysis clinic

Lipid clinic

Diabetes and nephrology clinic