Numerical estimation of the size of the kidney is useful in evaluating conditions of the kidney, especially, when serial MR imaging is performed to evaluate the kidney function. This paper presents a new method for automatic segmentation of the kidney in three-dimensional (3D) MR images, by extracting texture features and statistical matching of geometrical shape of the kidney. A set of Wavelet...

The clinical value of measuring the size of the two kidneys has now received general acknowledgement. Among other things it has provided a means of studying the natural history of certain renal diseases in a manner not possible before. One of the important results of this study is the realization that a number of renal conditions which first draw attention to themselves in adult life have in fa...

INTRODUCTION: The term ectopic kidney is used to describe a that found in place not its normal anatomic position while malrotation refers the abnormal orientation of kidney. These two are some congenital malformations predisposed embryogenesis.CASE: current findings were discovered during routine dissections Gross lab Human Anatomy Department University RwandaA left with relatively larger than ...

world kidney day (wkd) is a joint initiative of the international society of nephrology (isn) and the international federation of kidney foundations (ifkf). seven years on from the first campaign, world kidney day (wkd) has turned into a global phenomenon. on march 13, 2014, medical professionals, government officials, the general public, celebrities and patients took action locally. in 2014, t...

Background: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is an important complication after kidney transplantation (KT). UTI may cause kidney damage and dysfunction especially in children. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the risk of UTI after KT in adult and children and compare of them. Methods: This study was done in Shaheed Beheshti Hospital (Babol Medical University). All patients, aft...

The alkylglucoside vector has been demonstrated to be a kidney-specific drug delivery system via cell surface-specific binding sites. In the present study, we examined the targeting efficiency of this vector derivatized with several types of ligand to determine the efficacy and limitations of this system. The tissue uptake clearance in the kidney (CL(uptake, kidney)) of alkylglucoside-acylated ...

New Exact Approaches Tailored for Kidney Exchange Programs with Hierarchical Objectives exchange programs increase the rate of living donor kidney transplantation. Whereas effective integer programming models aimed at maximizing total number transplants have been proposed in literature, these cannot always be extended to handle a hierarchy objectives, which is often requirement practice. In “Ne...

BACKGROUND Favorable outcomes of en bloc pediatric donor kidney transplantation to adult recipients are attributed primarily to grafting of twice the nephron mass of a single kidney. METHODS The kidneys of a 9-month-old male infant were transplanted en bloc in a 56-year-old man. Biopsies were performed 1 hour postreperfusion, 6 months and 3.5 years posttransplant. RESULTS Warm and cold isch...