In an earlier study on kidney donors we found that nephrectomy shifts the action of Ang II from the afferent towards the efferent arteriole, 4 increasing efferent resistance and filtration pressure.

For years, the standard protocol when performing a partial nephrectomy has been to leave a drain for monitoring postoperative complications, such as urinary fistulae and hemorrhage. Contemporary ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with diabetes achieved shorter OS than those without diabetes. Other predictors of shorter survival ...

Phase II Trial of Idiotype Vaccination in Previously Treated Patients With Indolent Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Resulting in Durable Clinical Responses From January 1989 to July 2005, we identified ...

Kidney removal, medically known as a nephrectomy, is a major surgical procedure performed to treat kidney disease, cancer, or to enable a healthy individual to donate a kidney. While the operation can ...

The presence and number of kidney cysts, particularly in the medulla, may be an additional imaging-based biomarker for progressive CKD after radical nephrectomy for kidney cancer. Among patients who ...

A patient self-administers a finger prick blood test. Patients undergoing nephrectomy for RCC have a higher risk of death if they have diabetes, a new study suggests. Patients undergoing nephrectomy ...

In 1955 we had occasion to treat a patient in whom the pathologic changes were strikingly similar to that of the patient reported by Freeman et al. 1 However, our patient was normotensive before ...

Kidney removal surgery, a nephrectomy, can cause pain. While most discomfort fades in weeks, some patients experience chronic pain. Understanding different pain types like flank, back, and nerve pain ...