Lower urinary tract injury following gastrointestinal surgery has increased, according to a review of data in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database. According to Renal & Urology News, researchers ...

Early bedside ureteral stent removal was feasible and well accepted by patients, showing high satisfaction rates. It was ...

Surgeons are recommending two different techniques for removing single kidney stones that have become lodged in the ureter, based on results from 273 patients. Noninvasive shockwaves worked best for ...

Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is a condition of reverse urine flow. It can improve with time, but some people do require urinary reflux surgery. Your kidneys filter your blood and send urine to your ...

New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) Delhi-based Anil (name changed) had been living with a kidney tube (nephrostomy) and a urine bag hanging outside his body for three months. The 32-year-old man underwent ...

An innovative but pricy surgical procedure, a Memokath ureteral stent placement, is currently being conducted on patients at Mater Dei Hospital. The Memokath stent-type placement was conducted for the ...

EL PASO, Texas, April 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Palmas Medical Center is the first and currently only site in the world to enroll patients in a clinical trial for a fluorescent imaging agent, which ...

Although ureteric injury is relatively uncommon, it is a serious event that can result in intra-abdominal sepsis, renal failure, and loss of the ipsilateral renal unit. Most injuries are iatrogenic ...

A Highland Beach man has sued Boca Raton Regional Hospital and a Boca Raton radiologist he claims inserted a stent on the wrong side of his body in May 2018. The patient, Stanley Stein, 80, a survivor ...