Should we put stents in renal (kidney) arteries?
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HeartstrongPosted
Sun 29 Nov 2009 10:01pm
in an angiography lab for years where we performed balloon and stent procedures on renal arteries and had very good results. But does opening up the kidney blood vessels translate into health...
People who have narrowings (plaque) in kidney blood vessels sometimes are referred for angioplasty and stenting to open up the blood vessels and improve blood flow
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Help The 'Kidney Beans' Team Save Their Dad From Diabetes-Induced End Stage Renal Disease
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Jimmy M.Posted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 3:02pm
Joe Gaetani needs kidney transplant to see his kids grow up
Today I received an e-mail from someone who understands the fragility of life and how much your....
That message really hit home for Bill when his 5th grade son came home and told him that one of his classmate's dad is very, very sick from end stage renal disease brought on by Type 1
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Caveats for Using Renal Ultrasound to Diagnose Post-Renal Failure
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Matt S.Posted
Tue 21 Jul 2009 12:00am
Most would agree that the renal ultrasound is an invaluable tool in the workup of acute kidney injury. Although the renal ultrasound can give information regarding kidney... enough distension of the collecting system to detect with our current imaging tools.
2. obstruction in the setting of pre-renal failure: volume-depleted kidneys may
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bedtime reading: End stage renal disease in the US: an update from the US renal data system
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Dr. Donal O'DonoghuePosted
Thu 28 May 2009 12:22am
JASN, October 2007 Vol 18, No 10
End-Stage Renal Disease in the United States: An Update from the United States Renal Data System
Robert N Foley and Allan J Collins
Shows modest in survival but startling increases in cost. Reflecting the growth in the size of the ESRD population associated costs grew by 57% between 1999 and 2004 and now
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Renal diet
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simpo8katePosted
Sun 13 May 2012 3:16pm
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