BACKGROUND Transcatheter renal artery embolization is an effective and minimally invasive treatment option for acute renal bleeding. Early post-interventional complications include groin hematoma, incomplete embolization, coil misplacement and coil migration. Late complications are rare and mostly related to coil migration. CASE PRESENTATION A 22-year-old woman with a history of recurrent sto...

OBJECTIVES To assess the probability of spontaneous stone passage and its predictors after drainage of obstructed kidney by JJ stent, as insertion of an internal ureteric stent is often used for renal drainage in cases of calcular ureteric obstruction. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between January 2011 and June 2013, patients for whom emergent drainage by ureteric stents were identified. The patients'...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Kidney stones lead to chronic kidney disease (CKD) in people with rare hereditary disorders (e.g., primary hyperoxaluria, cystinuria), but it is unknown whether kidney stones are an important risk factor for CKD in the general population. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Among Olmsted County, MN, residents, all stone formers (n = 4774) whose condition wa...

Artificial Neural networks are often used as a powerful discriminating classifier for tasks in medical diagnosis for early detection of diseases. They have several advantages over parametric classifiers such as discriminate analysis. The objective of this paper is to diagnose kidney stone disease by using three different neural network algorithms which have different architecture and characteri...

INTRODUCTION The management of nephrolithiasis in patients with a solitary kidney poses a treatment challenge. The study aimed to evaluate the outcomes of ureteroscopy and laser stone fragmentation (URSL) for renal stones in these patients treated in our university teaching hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between July 2012 and December 2014, seventeen cases of URSL for stones in a solitary kid...

OBJECTIVE The incidence and prevalence of kidney stone is increasing worldwide. After the first recurrence the risk of subsequent relapses is higher and the time period between relapses is shortened. Urinary stones can be severely painful and make a huge economic burden. The stone disease may increase the vulnerability of patients to other diseases such as renal failure. Medicinal herbs are ric...

BACKGROUND Globally there is an increase in incidence of chronic kidney diseases (CKDs). Diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension and stone diseases are the major risk factors for CKD. We organized kidney disease screening camps in a semi-urban population of Gujarat, India on the occasion of World Kidney Day (WKD). METHODS Voluntary participants from six towns were screened. Estimated glomerular ...

Body organs are very crucial when it comes to homeostatically maintaining them. If any changes occur in their function, may lead the development of diseases body. The kidney is one functionalised that connected with ureter and urinary bladder, which basically lower part priorly controls volume various body fluids, fluid osmolality, acid-base balance, electrolyte concentrations, removal toxins. ...