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.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adjuvant pembrolizumab appeared associated with a significant and clinically meaningful improvement in DFS vs.

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 ...

Minimally invasive surgery linked to lower major complication risk, reduced length of stay, decreased transfusion rate.

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 ...

Cardiac transplant status is not significantly associated with adverse in-hospital outcomes in patients with kidney cancer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prediction of response to sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) using mass spectrometry-based (phospho) proteomics. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2021 ASCO Annual ...

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 ...

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 ...

Minimally invasive surgery linked to lower major complication risk, reduced length of stay, decreased transfusion rate.