An Omaha woman’s trip to the emergency room for a ruptured appendix led to the discovery of a two-pound kidney stone — and a first-of-its-kind robotic surgery in Nebraska that saved her kidney.

High blood pressure are leading causes of chronic kidney disease. Experts explain how hypertension damages kidney blood ...

Kidneys are vital to a child’s overall health because they help filter waste from the blood, regulate fluid balance and ...

April Spencer was used to staying involved in her community. Now, much of her week is spent in a dialysis chair, four hours ...

Hematochezia was the most common symptom in patients with AAV and GI manifestations, and other symptoms included abdominal pain, fever, diarrhea, and vomiting.

In this episode of From Bench to Bedside and Beyond, Dr. Yaw Nyame and patient Dave Lucas discuss the robotic surgical approach that enabled Lucas to carry on with his vacation plans and the value of ...

April Spencer was used to staying involved in her community. Now, much of her week is spent in a dialysis chair, four hours at a time, three days a week, as she hopes for a kidney transplant.

India, March 17 -- Latest study shows a serious link between emergency room wait times and patient survival. One in ten accident and emergency patients (A&E patients) with visible blood in urine ...

Professor Grant Stewart has led the development of the first national guideline on improving the diagnosis and management of kidney cancer.

Incidental detection has increased with ubiquitous CT/MRI, inflating early-stage ‘small renal mass’ diagnoses and complicating interpretation of a ~5% rise in <50-year incidence. Obesity, hypertension ...

A man being treated for a urinary tract infection turned out to have a rare "supernumerary kidney." ...

The PET tracer [ 89 Zr]Zr-girentuximab targets carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX), a hypoxia-inducible enzyme that is strongly expressed in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). CAIX expression is highly ...