Nephrology & Hypertension Services in La Crosse

If you or someone you care about has chronic kidney disease or needs kidney transplantation, you want to be assured that you're receiving the highest quality comprehensive care and latest treatment options. Our partnership with Mayo Clinic in Rochester offers this reassurance by blending the long-standing heritage of compassionate community-based care with a world-renowned medical practice.

Our kidney specialists include a nephrologist, physician assistant, nurses, nurse educator, dietitian, social worker, vascular access surgeons, radiologist and technicians. We consider our patients as vital team members too.

Nephrology (kidney) services include:

• Outpatient consultation for kidney diseases
• Hypertension Clinic
• Transplant Clinic
• Fluid and electrolyte abnormalities
• Polycystic kidney disease
• Inpatient and outpatient dialysis
• Cardio-renal syndrome clinic Coulee Region Transplant Support Group

We offer outpatient consultation for the entire spectrum of kidney diseases, including:

• Chronic kidney diseases
• Kidney stones
• Acute kidney failure
• Chronic glomerulonephritis and vasculitis
• Management of chronic disease complications including anemia treatment, bone disease, hyperparathyroidism, hypertension and others
• Kidney biopsies, renal angiogram and tunneled dialysis catheter insertion and removal

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Hypertension Clinic

We provide secondary hypertension evaluation and management, treatment for renal vascular hypertension — when kidney artery narrows and leads to high blood pressure — and when patients have difficulty controlling high blood pressure.

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Transplant Clinic

In close collaboration with Transplant Center at Mayo Clinic, we offer all pre-transplant evaluation locally by a nephrologist who also is an active member of the Mayo Clinic Post-Transplant Committee. Most of the workup is done locally, which helps in the smooth transition of care from pre-transplant chronic kidney disease to post-transplant state. Once the kidney-pancreas transplant is done, patients follow up locally without the need for frequent visits to Mayo Clinic. All of the long-term transplant care is done locally based on the exact same protocols as at Mayo Clinic.

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Fluid and electrolyte abnormalities

We help manage and treat hyponatremia, hyperkalemia, renal tubular acidosis, hypercalcemia and other disorders including workup of diabetes insipidus, polyuria and more.

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Polycystic kidney disease

We work closely with world-renowned physicians and investigators at Mayo Clinic to provide cutting-edge care for polycystic kidney disease.

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Dialysis services

We offer all modalities of dialysis to patients with end-stage kidney diseases, or ESRD. This includes in-center hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis. Mayo Clinic Dialysis, located at the Onalaska clinic, offers 18 chairs providing the highest quality in-center hemodialysis six days a week. We also are accepting transient patients after medical clearance with the medical director. Call the dialysis unit between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. at 608-392-5011 for information or if you have questions.

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Coulee Region Transplant Support Group

This group is an independent body that operates with the assistance of local business sponsors and support from our Nephrology Department and the Franciscan Healthcare Foundation. We meet and socialize with transplant recipients or patients waiting for transplantation. The group meets the first Tuesday of the month in the lower level conference room at the Onalaska clinic. There is no fee to join and you can attend anytime.

Member benefits include:

• Guest lectures from invited speakers to discuss transplant-related issues
• Annual summer picnic with door prizes and lots of fun
• Variety of events throughout the year to raise awareness about organ transplantation

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