DALLAS (AP) -- New research raises serious questions about a very common medical procedure — placing a stent to prop open a narrowed kidney artery. A study found that people treated with these ...

The doctor may also put a stent in your ... possibly causing kidney failure.Radiation risk There is always a slight risk of damage to cells or tissues from being exposed to any radiation, including ...

The stent, I was assured, would alleviate the pain. More importantly, it would keep the tumor from collapsing my ureter, leading to irreversible kidney failure. Hadassah’s outpatient stent ...

Using stents to open up kidney arteries is commonly done in patients with atherosclerotic renovascular disease, but the procedure provides no benefit, according to a paper being presented at the ...

Stent implanted in right kidney, not left Miller was hospitalized at Vanderbilt in November 2017 due to pain in her side and a fever. Doctors decided to implant a mesh tube called a stent into ...

The best way to treat kidney stones depends on how what they are composed of and how they are shaped. Empa researchers are now working on a painless diagnostic procedure using dark-field X-ray ...

To avoid major complications like stenosis or leakage following kidney transplantation, some surgeons elect to place a ureteral stent across the site of anastomosis of the donor ureter to the ...