a partial nephrectomy and an RN must be attempted, as separate procedures. Relative indications include those in which the contralateral kidney has pre-existing renal disease, or its future ...

Warm ischemia during partial nephrectomy is associated with an increased risk of renal failure and chronic kidney disease, report R. Houston Thompson and colleagues in two papers published in ...

Additionally, overweight and obese individuals have a higher renal plasma flow ... An individual affected by kidney cancer may require a partial or complete nephrectomy to treat their malignancy.

There are several types of kidney (renal) cancer. Each type is potentially ... removal of the tumor and part of the kidney (partial nephrectomy). In stage 2 kidney cancer, the tumor has grown ...

Two patients (1.6%) had recurrence of renal cell cancer at 16 and 35 months post-RAPN (details described below). One of the recurrences was in the ipsilateral kidney, and the other had widespread ...

Before receiving a kidney transplant ... the workup for transplantation. Although renal artery embolization may be an alternative to surgical nephrectomy, Dr. Geertsema and his colleagues ...