Microwave ablation is an effective treatment modality for T1a and selected T1b renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Independent of the ...

Diabetes-related kidney disease can worsen and lead to failure. You may experience many different symptoms, including lower back pain, fatigue, and nausea or vomiting. If you have kidney disease ...

The injection pump was activated, and the ultrasound was used to observe the time it took for the contrast to reach the kidney, followed by continuous observation for 2 min until the contrast entered ...

—Before receiving a kidney transplant, patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease often undergo a nephrectomy. But there hasn’t been clear guidance on who’s a good candidate ...

An ultrasound scan is a procedure that uses high frequency sound waves to create a picture of a part of the inside of your body. The ultrasound scanner has a probe that gives off sound waves. The ...

a new device—in the prototype phase—to break up kidney stones. Lithovortex is a low-cost, portable device capable of destroying stones non-invasively, thanks to the application of ultrasound ...

The nephrostomy and cystostomy catheters had migrated into the renal parenchyma and bladder wall on postoperative ... postoperatively and every 1.5 months thereafter, abdominal ultrasound, serum ...

Despite this, the influence of the perirenal fat thickness relative to renal parenchymal thickness on kidney stones (KS) development remains ambiguous. This study investigated the clinical ...