Live donor kidney transplantation was first applied as a clinical strategy in pediatric transplantation because of the disparate wait by children compared with adults for cadaveric donor kidneys. As ...

SAN DIEGO, CA—Concordant with studies of other technologies for renal denervation, the presence of untreated accessory arteries was associated with a reduced blood pressure-lowering response to the ...

The kidneys play a dominant role in regulating both the volume and composition of the extracellular fluid. They function to ensure that the body maintains a homeostatic internal environment. They ...

Renal tumors show low and high anatomic complexity. Contrast-enhanced (a) axial and (b) coronal abdominal CT images in a 70-year-old man diagnosed with a right renal tumor (arrows) Nephrometry score ...

Background. A 32-year-old man was referred to a tertiary care center for stone management. The patient had initially presented to his primary physician 3 months earlier with right flank pain of 2 ...

Flexible ureteroscopy and lasertripsy (FURSL) for treating renal stones larger than 1 cm in diameter is associated with high success rates, data show. The finding comes from a study of 88 patients ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Macrophages are immune cells that engulf and digest pathogens, cancer cells or cellular debris. The kidneys — like other tissues in the body — contain kidney resident macrophages, ...

In a recent study published in on the preprint server Research Square* while it is under review for publication in Scientific Reports, researchers examine the potential use of deep learning (DL) ...