SAN ANTONIO -- Delaying surgery for small renal masses in favor of a period of surveillance did not adversely affect feasibility or outcomes of subsequent nephron-sparing interventions, a large ...

The purpose of this communication is to present certain data pertinent to this syndrome and to suggest that treatment based on the pathological physiology of this type of renal failure offers ...

Studies were conducted on the fetuses of 15 Border Leicester X Merino ewes of known mating date. There were six control fetuses (all singletons), five fetuses that had undergone UPE to induce IUGR ...

Gemcitabine Plus Cisplatin, an Active Regimen in Advanced Urothelial Cancer: A Phase II Trial of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group PURPOSE: To analyze the experience with ...

For most children with renal masses, the standard of care has long been to remove the entire affected kidney- which is the protocol for Wilms tumor, the most common kidney cancer in children. But is ...

The broad application of cross-sectional imaging has led to the incidental discovery of small renal masses (SRM) as the most common presentation for localized kidney cancer. As this stage migration ...

Nephron-sparing surgery (NSS) for small renal masses substantially decreases the incidence of moderate renal dysfunction compared with radical nephrectomy (RN), according to the results of the ...

In a highly challenging case, a 55-year-old woman suffering from a complex renal tumor located dangerously close to the kidney’s main blood vessels has undergone a successful nephron-sparing surgery.

A new consortium to accelerate the discovery of novel drugs to treat kidney diseases was announced Monday 6 November. The NEPLEX (nephron on a chip with cellular and extracellular matrix complexity) ...

Glucagon-sensitive adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] activity was measured in nine different portions of the rat nephron. Each sample contained a single piece of ...