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 The Division of Nephrology at children’s Hospital ali asghar provides nephrologic care of children and offers expert diagnosis-treatment of all types of nephrologic disorders in neonates, infants, children and adolescents. Our division of pediatric nephrology is a tertiary referral center and one of the largest pediatric nephrology services in Tehran, Iran. There are approximately 60 outpatient visits and 15 admissions each week at ali asghar children Hospital.
Ali asghar children Hospital’s high patient volume provides clinical exposure to wide spectrum of conditions and unusual cases. Our Dialysis service evaluates and monitors children in need of and receiving all forms of dialysis.

The renal pathology laboratory and electron microscopy laboratory offer specialized procedures for the diagnosis of native and transplant kidney biopsies, including renal biopsy pathology, direct immunofluorescence and diagnostic electron microscopy. More than 700 cases of renal biopsy were performed in Ali asghar Hospital.
Our program in renal transplantation provides outpatients evaluation and follow up of pediatric candidates for renal transplantation. There are approximately 15 outpatient visits per week and 4 admissions for renal transplantation each month.
Labafinejad Hospital is experienced with living related and unrelated organ donor. This Hospital is the largest pediatric renal transplantation in Iran that more than 500 pediatric transplantations were performed in this center. Our training program provides the education for medical students, residents and fellows. To date, 14 fellowships in the field of pediatric nephrology have graduated from Ali asghar children Hospital.

Hasan Otukesh is a professor of pediatric nephrology and transplantation at Iran University. He is the chief of the division of pediatric nephrology at aliasghar children Hospital, director of resident and fellowship training program and one the most important researcher of pediatric renal transplantation in Iran.
 

Our urology team in Ali asghar children and labafi Nejad Hospitals is one of the most experienced groups in Tehran, Iran. Farzaneh sharifi aghdas is an associate professor of urology at Shaheed Beheshti University of medicine. She is one of the most important pediatric urologists at labafi Nejad Hospital, and one of the directors of resident and fellowship training program and in her spare times an English poetess.
The urology team visits over 70 outpatients and manages an average of 7-10 operates operations in children over a week. Operations include different methods of endoscopic and open antireflux surgeries, pyeloplasty, ureteral reimplantation, Augmentation cystoplasty, Percutaneous nephrolithotomy, urinary tract anomalies and malformations such as hypospadias, Extrophy-epispadias syndrome. More than 400 laparascopic pyeloplasties were performed in labafi nejad hospital, most of which were performed in children. An average of 10-15 children undergoe urodynamic study per week and 10 undergo ESWL treatment for urinary tract stone each week. To date, 15 fellowships in the field of pediatric urology have graduated from labafi Nejad Hospital.