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Nephropexy is the surgical intervention aiming to reposition and fixate a floating or mobile kidney. [1] This is done in order to prevent its descent ( nephroptosis ) or to deliberately move the kidney downward in order to compensate for a shortened ureter . [ 1 ]
UW Medical Center – Northwest (formerly Northwest Hospital & Medical Center) is a 281-bed hospital in Seattle, Washington. It was built in 1960 and became part of the UW Medicine system in 2010. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Prior to the merger, a 1997 agreement had already made Northwest the home for a UW Medicine cardiac surgery program.
The Seattle Fire Department operates Seattle Medic One. The program is funded by the city's general fund and has a different administrative structure than the five other Medic One programs. [ 1 ] The five other Medic One programs with the exception of King County Medic One are operated by fire departments under a formal contract with the EMS ...
Swedish Health Services (formerly Swedish Medical Center) is a nonprofit healthcare provider in the Seattle metropolitan area.It operates five hospital campuses (in the Seattle neighborhoods of First Hill, Cherry Hill and Ballard, and the cities of Edmonds and Issaquah), ambulatory care centers in the cities of Redmond and Mill Creek, and Swedish Medical Group, a network of more than 100 ...
The University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) is a hospital in the University District of Seattle, Washington.It is one of the teaching hospitals affiliated with the University of Washington School of Medicine and is located in the Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center.
Other hospitals in the city include the Seattle Children's Hospital in the Laurelhurst neighborhood, the pediatric referral center for Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. [12] The hospital was founded in 1908 as part of the now-defunct Seattle General Hospital and moved to Laurelhurst in 1953, where it has since expanded to 407 ...
J and K Wings viewed from the green roof of the Foege Building loading dock. The Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center is a university hospital part of the University of Washington campus in Seattle and one of the largest buildings in the United States with a total floor area of 5.8 million square feet (540,000 m 2). [1]
Laparoscopic nephrectomy. The surgery is performed with the patient under general anesthesia.A kidney can be removed through an open incision or by laparoscopic surgery.For the open procedure, the surgeon makes an incision in the side of the abdomen to reach the kidney.