All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS Delhi is a medical college and medical research public university based in New Delhi, India. The Institute was established in 1956.

Department of Nephrology

Research Area-

Research completed

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus and cryoglobulins in patients of MPGN.
Clinico pathological study of nondiabetic renal disease in non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.
Effect of Oral base therapy (OBT) on parathyroid hormone and bone metabolism in patients with mild to moderate chronic renal failure.
Glomerulonephritis following Spleno-Renal shunt (SPS) in NCPF.
A study of conversion from cyclosporine to cyclosporine neoral in stable renal transplant recipients.
Impact of blood cyclosporine estimation on management of acute graft dysfuction in living related renal transplanta programme.
Longterm outcome of renal allograft recipients requiring ATG for steriod resistant rejection (SRR)
Outcome of peritonitis treated with intraperitoneal (IP) vancomycin and daily IP netilmycin (Dr.S.K.Agarwal while on Commonwealth medical fellowship to UK)

Research continuing

Incidence of coronary artery disease in patients of NIDDM with ESRD.
Co-relation between glomerular morphometry and clinical manifestations in glomercular diseases.
Granulomatous nephritis.
Study of CRI receptor in erythrocyte and kidney tissue in patients of glomerulonephritis.
Use of acute tenchof's catheter for continous peritoneal dialysis in intensive care unit in patients of renal failure.
Study the problem of kidney disease in the elderly with special reference to dialysis and transplantation
Nephrotoxicity of NSAIDS in chronic arthropathy.
A clinical study of patients presenting isolated haematuria.

Collaborative research continuing:

Clinicopathological course of adult minimal change disease. (Pathology).
Dermatological complications in patients following renal transplant. (Dermatology and Venerology).
Spectrum of nondiabetic glomerular disease in patients with diabetes mellitus. (Pathology)
Spectrum of liver disease in patients on maintance haemodialysis in North India. (Microbiology, Laboratory Medicine).
Prospective randomised trial for efficacy of two schedules of hepatitis B vaccination in patients of mild, moderate and severe renal failure. (Pathology, Microbiology)
A study of hepatitis in renal transplant recipients. (Microbiology, Pathology).
Prevalence and clinical course of hepatitis C infection in patients on oral replacement therapy. (Pathology, Laboratory Medicine).
Impact of cyclosporine on living related renal transplant programme. (Surgery).

Prof. & Head - S.C. Tiwari

Addl. Prof. - S.K. Agarwal

Assoc. Prof. -

Sanjay Gupta
D. Bhowmik
Sandeep Mahajan

O.P.D. and Speciality clinics-

In-Patients

In addition, the following services were rendered.

Numbers
Hemodialysis 5960
Plasmapheresis/Plasma exchange 32
Continous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) 15
Subclavin catherization 250
Arterio-venous shunts Minor 160
A-V fistulae operations 72

Renal transplantations investigations

Recipients 137
Donors 250

Laboratory investigations

Renal laboratory 55080

Contact address

All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Government Medical College
Gautam Nagar, Ansari Nagar East, New Delhi, Delhi 110029