This clinic brings together staff from Addenbrooke’s hospital: nephrology, medical genetics, urology and clinical biochemistry to see patients whose disease usually needs to be looked after by one or more of these specialties.
This clinic is for patients with kidney disorders that known to be inherited or that often run in families. It brings together staff from Addenbrooke’s hospital (nephrology, medical genetics, urology and clinical biochemistry) to see patients whose disease usually needs to be looked after by one or more of these specialties.
It is located in Clinic 12 of the outpatients department.
Patients may be referred by their general practitioners (GPs) or by hospital doctors from Addenbrooke’s, from local hospitals or from further away if there is no local centre.
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What does the clinic offer?
At each clinic there is one or more of a consultant nephrologist, medical geneticist, urologist and chemical pathologist, and a specialist renal nurse responsible for our Tolvaptan
Programme for PKD patients.
We have the expertise in the clinic at a single visit to evaluate fully and care for the patient, which should lead to better and more efficient care.
We have access to genetic counselling and can arrange diagnostic mutation screening for selected conditions where the causative gene is known.
Referral Information
Which patients are referred to us?
We can provide services to:
Adults who have all types of renal tubular diseases including polycystic kidney disease; the cause may be acquired, hereditary or unknown.
Patients who have recurrent kidney stones and/or a family history of kidney stones.
We are also happy to see ‘at-risk’ relatives of patients.
Typical diagnoses or problems include:
- Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD)
- Bartter Syndrome
- Cystinuria
- Dent disease
- Familial hypertension
- Gitelman syndrome
- Hypercalciuria (of unknown cause)
- Hypomagnesemia (of unknown cause)
- Hypophosphatemia
- Medullary cystic kidney disease
- Nephrocalcinosis and medullary sponge kidney
- Nephronophthisis
- Recurrent hypokalaemia or hyperkalaemia (of unknown cause)
- Recurrent kidney stones
- Renal tubular acidosis (definite or possible)
- Severe gout with renal impairment
- And other rare syndromes affecting the kidney
To make referrals, please use EPIC specifying 'RGTD clinic' (and FAO Professor Fiona Karet) or contact:
The Clinic PA
RGTD Clinic
Box 118
Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 0QQ
Telephone: 01223 217828 (for referrals only)