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Welcome to Beaumont Hospital Kidney Centre (incorporating Transplant Nephrology & Urology - TUN for short). We are internationally recognised for our expertise in kidney transplantation. We’re also leaders in the field of haemodialysis care and home dialysis
The Transplant Urology and Nephrology Directorate at Beaumont Hospital is the national referral centre for kidney transplantation and is extremely proud to manage and coordinate the National Kidney Transplant Service. It is the largest referral centre in the Republic of Ireland for the specialty of nephrology and dialysis. The directorate provides a fully comprehensive range of multidisciplinary services for patients diagnosed with urological and nephrological diseases and conditions.
The service has its origins going back to Jervis Street Hospital, with the acquisition of a haemodialysis machine in 1958. Since those early days, dialysis and transplant medicine has grown rapidly in Ireland and the “Renal Unit” at Beaumont Hospital remains the largest provider of renal replacement therapy in the country offering a full range of therapies for renal failure including; Haemodialysis, Peritoneal dialysis, Plasma Exchange Therapy and Renal Transplantation (national centre).
For more information on this history of the service please see HERE
We hope the following pages will help you understand the range of treatments we offer to patients with kidney problems and kidney failure as a result of having kidney disease, such as:
Beaumont Kidney Center is the largest referral center in Ireland for the specialty of nephrology and dialysis and the national referral center of renal and pancreatic transplantation.
This video describes your journey through the services the Kidney Centre provide.
The unit provides a fully comprehensive range of multidisciplinary services for patients with renal disease including
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The Kidney Centre has a total of 64 beds and are located on the 4th floor of the hospital in Peter's & Damien's Wards.
The Dialysis Centre at Beaumont Hospital is a major provider of acute and outpatient maintenance haemodialysis services both within the region and Ireland delivering 30,000 haemodialysis treatments annually. There is also a plasmapheresis service provided by haemodialysis trained staff to the nephrology, transplant, haematology and neurology services.
For people living with end stage kidney disease, successful kidney transplantation provides many benefits-it significantly increases life expectancy, and provides substantial improvements in overall health and quality of life.