Manikkam Suthanthiran, M.D., Chief
Welcome to the Division of Nephrology & Hypertension. Our mission is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, and state of the art care to every patient afflicted with kidney disease and/or high blood pressure. We are committed to excellence in clinical care, education, and research. Our program has consistently been ranked in the top five programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report. Our Hypertension Center is the only center in the greater metropolitan area devoted exclusively to the care of patients with blood pressure and circulation disorders. This center provides optimal and individualized patient care. We are also active in diabetes research at the newly established Weill Cornell Center for Islet Transplantation for Type I Diabetes.
Our center has a long and distinguished history in renal transplantation. The first renal transplantation in the tri-state area was performed at our center in October 1963. We have performed more than 5,100 transplants since the program's inception in 1963. Our success rates following renal transplants meet or exceed national success rates. The national organization that maintains survival statistics of organ transplants in USA reported that our one year patient survival rate was 97.67% (National Patient Survival Rate: 95.49%), and our one year transplant survival rate was 94.03% (National Renal Transplant Survival Rate: 91.62%).
The Division of Nephrology and Hypertension provides evidence-based clinical care for patients afflicted with acute or chronic kidney disease. Renal consultations and state of the art renal replacement therapies (acute dialysis, chronic dialysis, and continuous renal replacement therapy) are provided by renal attending physicians.
The Hypertension Center is one of the few dedicated hypertension practices in the tri-state area. Our mission is to provide comprehensive care to our patients, including evaluation for causes of hypertension and management of cardiovascular risk factors. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, hormonal profiling, pulse wave analysis, and complete cardiovascular evaluation are also available at the Hypertension Center. Existing data show that most people worldwide do not have their blood pressures well controlled. Based on national statistics, the patients managed at our acclaimed Hypertension Center do much better with respect to blood pressure control, and are significantly more protected from the ravages of uncontrolled blood pressure.
