Scientists have uncovered why people with chronic kidney disease so often die from heart problems: damaged kidneys release ...

Many patients with kidney disease also develop heart disease. New research offers a possible explanation.

Scientists have discovered an answer to the longstanding mystery of why more than half of patients with chronic kidney ...

A renal allograft recipient (underlying disease IgA nephropathy) went into renal failure 10 days after transplantation. The donor kidney had multiple cortical cysts and 2 separate renal arteries. A ...

The kidney's proximal tubule reabsorbs water, glucose, ions and other small molecules from the urine and thus maintains the ...

Backstory<BR><BR>So it turns out that my MRI has disqualified me as a donor.<BR><BR>I wasn't able to talk to Doctor/Surgeon , but the transplant coordinator lady said that I had 3 arteries in one ...

Scientists have discovered an answer to the longstanding mystery of why more than half of patients with chronic kidney ...

If you're among the hundreds of thousands of Americans with clogged kidney arteries, you might want to consider trying medicines before rushing into angioplasty to open them up. The pricey procedure ...

Diagnosis of high blood pressure—a disease largely confined to middle age—has hitherto been based chiefly on the assumed presence of incurable hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis). Now come Dr ...