The Ratchaphruek Hospital has set up a modern, spacious, comfortable and wellventilated artificial kidney service centre, recognized as one of the best of its kind
in the northeastern region of Thailand. The Centre is manned by a team of highly
experienced specialists whose commitment is to upgrade the quality of life of the
patients and their loved ones.
The Centre has the following services at disposal:

• Standardized pure water system
• Hemodialysis through special technology accredited by the Kidney
  Association of Thailand
• Hemodialysis by online hemodiafiltration to enhance efficiency in clearing
  the kidneys
• Hemodialysis for acute emergency renal failure cases
• 24-hour consecutive hemodialysis for patients with critical renal failure who
  cannot be treated by normal hemodialysis procedure
• Provision of entertainment gadgets, i.e., personal IPAD for patients during
• hemodialysis process
• Disposing of separate holding rooms for the patients’ cousins

Screening test for chronic renal failure disease Recommendations for those
who should get diagnostic test for chronic renal failure before the symptoms start
to show as follows:

1. Those with diabetes
2. Those with hypertension
3. Those with an age over 60 years old
4. Those with heart and vascular disease
5. Those with gout
6. Those with renal stones or renal cysts
7. Those with one kidney
8. Those with renal history in the family
9. Those who had their urines checked up and found not normal
10. Those who frequently took painkillers or herbal medicines
    

The doctors will run medical history check up, examine the patients and send the
patients’ urine and blood specimen and for testing as well as for ultrasound test.
Slowing down renal degradation in chronic renal failure patients by
controlling blood pressure, sugar level, nutrition and medicines to reduce the
amount of hormone in the urine.
Counseling service on replacement therapy for chronic renal failure cases
For chronic end-stage renal disease patients (which is the last stage of chronic
kidney failure), they will receive the therapy using peritoneal dialysis,
hemodialysis and kidney transplantation. The Hospital has an edge-cutting
Hemodialysis Centre that offers dialysis for chronic end-stage renal disease
patients which is one of the best in the northeastern region.
Diagnostic Test Service for kidney specimens
The Ratchaphruek Hospital offers this service through a team of specialized and
experienced physicians to find out the actual cause of kidneys’ decreased
functioning in patients, aside from other concurrent symptoms such as hemorrhage
in urine or protein leaks in urine. It also offers diagnosis on nephritis as a result of
autoimmune disease so as to render appropriate treatment in a timely manner.

Specialized nephrologists will examine kidney specimen by penetrating needle into
the kidneys via the ultrasound machine to take out a piece of specimen and send it
for pathological examination in order to find the actual cause of the illness.

Which symptoms need immediate medical diagnosis?

1. Dysuria
2. Foamy Urine
3. Swollen face, swollen eyelid
4. Swollen feet
5. Hemorrhage in urine or unusual colour in urine
6. Back pain or chronic back pain coupled with high fever
7. Medical history shows abnormal BUN result or abnormal urine test result
8. History of chronic renal disease in the family