Dr. Adnane Guella

MD, CES/French Board in Nephrology
Senior Consultant Nephrologist

Qualifications
Dr. Guella gained his MD degree at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oran, Algeria and completed his French Board in Nephrology (C.E.S;Certificat d’ Etudes Speciales de Nephrologie) from the Faculty of Medicine of Lille, France.

Experience
Dr. Adnane has 28 years’ experience in the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic kidney diseases, follow-up and care of dialysis patients as well as preparation, evaluation and follow-up of kidney transplant patients.Hisexpertise includes also acute dialysis (CRRT) in intensive care unit, vascular access catheter insertions, and renal biopsy.

He has special interest and expertise in all Apheresis techniques (plasmapheresis, cascade filtration, LDL – Apheresis, Red cell apheresis, platelet apheresis, leukapheresis and photopheresis). He performed the first LDL-Apheresis (1998) in the Arab World, using Cobeultracentrifugation machine in two patients with familial hypercholesterolemia and the first red cell apheresis (2004) in a patient with sickle cell crisis.

Prior to joining UHS, Dr. Adnane was Consultant Nephrologist and Head of the Nephrology division of King Fahd Military Medical Complex, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, where he was also involved in renal transplantation from living and cadaveric donors.

Dr. Adnane got his initial training in France and was associated with various hospitals in France including Amiens University Hospital, Lille University Hospital and Roubaix General Hospital.He hasauthored several scientific papers in peer reviewed journals in the field of nephrology and transplantationand is widely published in medical journals. He is also reviewer for the American Journal of Kidney Diseases. He received an award from the International Society of Nephrology in Sydney for young first author of a poster.

Special Interests

• Kidney Diseases
• Acute Dialysis
• Chronic Dialysis
• Hypertension
• Kidney Transplantation
• Apheresis