This was an observational, descriptive, retrospective, single-center study of cases of nephrectomies for non-functional kidney in the urology department of the Ouakam Military Hospital over a ...

Diabetic kidney disease is a leading cause of kidney failure worldwide, yet current treatments often slow progression ...

Renal function tests are performed to evaluate how well the kidneys are doing their job of filtering out nitrogenous waste from the blood. They involve the measurement of various substances in both ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the United States, the annual rate of growth in incident patients with end-stage kidney disease has slowed.

More than 60% of renal cell carcinomas are now detected incidentally. Such tumors are smaller than those found based on symptomatology, less likely to metastasize, and often amenable to ...

Overall, the reviewers wrote, most IBD therapies “appear safe and effective when used in chronic kidney disease, including on renal replacement therapy, particularly biologic therapies.” However, they ...

Doctors often use 'renal failure' and 'kidney failure' interchangeably, both signifying a critical loss of kidney function. While 'renal' stems from Latin for kidneys and is common in medical jargon, ...

The urinary recovery of nitrofurantoin after a single 100-mg oral dose was studied in subjects with varying renal function. Almost all uremic patients excreted little or no drug in the urine during a ...

Recently, my primary care physician spotted some abnormal numbers related to my kidney function. He suspects that this is related to lisinopril. As a result, he decreased my daily dosage to just 10 mg ...

What is Acute Renal Failure? "The kidneys are so beautifully organized; they do their work of regulation with such a positively divine precision, such knowledge and wisdom, that there is no reason why ...