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A few words about us
We have been Serving community since 1980. Portsmouth Nephrology is pleased to provide complete, personalized renal care to Our community.
Portsmouth Nephrology physicians are Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine—Subspecialty of Nephrology. We provide consultative and ongoing care for patients with a myriad of kidney-related conditions such as Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypertension, Acute Kidney Injury, Hematuria, Proteinuria, Kidney stones, inherited Cystic Kidney Disease, such as polycystic kidney disease, glomerulonephritis.
In addition to our interest in various aspect of dialysis including Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis therapy for the majority of our patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).
We provide care for following conditions
Meet our doctors
She is native of Hamton Roads and graduate of Indian River High School. She attended Old Dominion University and ECPI college of Technology.
Lavon has 25+ years of medical billing and management with over a decade in Nephrology. She Joined Portsmouth Nephrology in 2015.
Most common reason for patient to be referred by primary care to a nephrologist (Physician who specialize in kidney disease) is because of abnormal kidney function result in laboratory report. It is possible and quite common that Patient may not have any specific symptoms.
Other common conditions are blood or protein in urine, kidney stones and cystic kidney disease.
Your Primary Care Physician seeks the guidance from nephrologist colleague to determine the root cause or causes and collaborate to provide the best possible plan of treatment.
It is not uncommon that patient may not feel any obvious symptoms. Severe symptoms of renal failure such as short of breath, itching, weight loss, poor appetite, leg swelling etc usually seen in very late stage of renal disease.
However, once kidney function declines to the point of needing significant intervention, patients won’t “feel well” anymore, inevitably experiencing symptoms and needing further intervention or treatment. Our goal as Nephrologist is to keep you “feeling well” and keep those kidneys functioning as well as possible, for as long as possible.
You should not need dialysis until your kidney function is less than 15%. At that point you will begin to feel unwell and treatments/interventions are no longer effective in managing symptoms and supplementing the functions of your kidneys. This can be a very slow transition for some patients. In general, many patients do not have any obvious symptoms of kidney disease until the kidneys actually begin failing.
Main Address
3235 Academy Ave # 301, Portsmouth, VA 23703
