The GlomCare Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital is dedicated to supporting children and adolescents with glomerular disease that has been unresponsive to standard treatment or has developed a complicated disease course.
Glomerular diseases affect the filtering units of your kidney, the glomeruli. The purpose of the GlomCare Clinic is to provide exceptional, family-centered care for glomerular disease patients, in a compassionate environment. By delivering new and precise diagnoses and personalized treatments, we aim to improve outcomes and quality of life.
In the last decade, there has been an advent of new treatment options available for these conditions. Our goal is to provide guidance around use of these newer therapies, if indicated.
The clinic offers a unique approach in the following ways:
- Physicians who have experience treating patients with complex glomerular disease
- Access to clinical trials and research studies
- Access to genetic testing (the Boston Children’s Kidney Genetics Clinic) if indicated
- Multidisciplinary approach that includes pathology, rheumatology, and immunology
We treat children and young adults with any form of glomerular disease, including but not limited to:
