Doctors in this southern Indian city have successfully saved the kidneys of a 52-year-old woman through a complex 9.5-hour laparoscopic surgery — a rare medical feat, a leading urologist said on ...

Renal hypoplasia, defined as abnormally small kidneys with normal morphology and reduced nephron number, is a common cause of pediatric renal failure and adult-onset disease. Genetic studies ...

Some efforts to address these limitations have involved the use of ultrasound-based imaging methods. This narrative review paper focuses on recent developments in the use of medical imaging, with a ...

Ureteropelvic junction obstruction occurs when the junction (called the renal pelvis) that attaches the kidney to the ureter becomes blocked ... While the diagnosis of UPJ obstruction may be suspected ...

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a prevalent condition that can significantly affect quality of life. Urethral mobility is an important factor in SUI and transperineal ultrasound (TPUS) imaging ...

To measure the renal pelvis volume using ultrasound. Depending on whether clamped the contralateral ureter and it continuously emptied the bladder, perfused the renal pelvis at rate of 15, 30, 60, 90, ...

Animals were maintained according to National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals with approval from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Nationwide ...

Patients were excluded based on the following criteria: (1) renal pelvis cancer and other rare types of renal malignancies; (2) patients did not receive the ultrasound and CEUS examinations; (3) poor ...