About Mount Sinai Renal Services

Mount Sinai's kidney disease program ranks among the best in the nation, according to the 2011-2012 U.S. News & World Report "America's Best Hospitals" issue. The Mount Sinai program ranks 25th out of nearly 5,000 hospitals evaluated by U.S. News.

The Mount Sinai Medical Center has been an international leader in the treatment of kidney disease since performing the first hemodialysis in the United States in the 1950s. Mount Sinai established New York State's first dialysis center in 1957 and operates the largest home dialysis program in New York City. Our state-of-the-art peritoneal dialysis unit is located in Mount Sinai's Center for Advanced Medicine on New York's Upper East Side.

Expertise spans numerous kidney diseases and treatments

Mount Sinai physicians and researchers have expertise in:

• Kidney development
• Chronic kidney disease
• Polycystic kidney disease
• HIV-associated nephropathy
• Geriatric kidney disease
• Diabetes-related kidney disease
• Hypertensive kidney disease
• Kidney transplantation
• Hemodialysis
• Peritoneal dialysis

Mount Sinai Medical Center has one of the largest kidney transplant programs in the nation, with success rates among the best in the country. Our one-year patient and graft survival rates, for instance, are 99 percent and 96 percent, respectively.

Abundant research taking place

Our history as a leader in kidney disease research, along with the large number of patients we treat, enable Mount Sinai to conduct and support numerous clinical trials. With this much research taking place, our patients often have access to experimental treatments unavailable elsewhere.

Mount Sinai takes a leadership role in the prevention of kidney disease through physician and patient education. According to the National Kidney Foundation, an estimated 26 million adults in the United States suffer from chronic kidney disease — a condition associated with high rates of cardiovascular disorders.

Mount Sinai physicians go to community centers, health fairs, and other venues to inform community-based physicians and patients about kidney disease and conduct free screenings for early detection.