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 ...

To mitigate the influence of selection bias, investigators matched patients undergoing active surveillance and partial nephrectomy for small renal masses by their risk of dying of noncancer causes.

Despite its complexity, partial nephrectomy still provides the best survival rates among treatment options in patients aged 75 years or older with T1-T2 renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Investigators ...

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 ...

Of the 111 patients, 68 (61%) had a normal contralateral kidney (elective indication for partial nephrectomy), 93 (84%) had a stage T1 tumor, and 75 (67.6%) had clear cell pathology. The mean ...

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 ...

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.

Mathison revealed that he had been diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, or kidney cancer, in September 2019. Days later, he underwent a partial nephrectomy — a procedure in which the tumor and ...

Additionally, the team observed that the concentration of cross-linking agents in the renal gel ... early detection of kidney tumors allows for their removal via partial nephrectomy.

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 ...