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Frequency. 22.1 million (2015) [5] Deaths. 16,100 (2015) [6] Kidney stone disease, also known as renal calculus disease, nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis, is a crystallopathy where a solid piece of material (renal calculus) develops in the urinary tract. [2] Renal calculi typically form in the kidney and leave the body in the urine stream. [2]
Dent's disease (or Dent disease) is a rare X-linked recessive inherited condition that affects the proximal renal tubules [1] of the kidney.It is one cause of Fanconi syndrome, and is characterized by tubular proteinuria, excess calcium in the urine, formation of calcium kidney stones, nephrocalcinosis, and chronic kidney failure.
Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic (/ ˈmeɪjoʊ /) is a private American academic medical center focused on integrated healthcare, education, and research. [4] It maintains three major campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; and Phoenix / Scottsdale, Arizona. Mayo Clinic employs over 7,300 physicians and scientists, along with another ...
Sorafenib, sold under the brand name Nexavar, [3] is a kinase inhibitor drug approved for the treatment of primary kidney cancer (advanced renal cell carcinoma), advanced primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), FLT3-ITD positive AML and radioactive iodine resistant advanced thyroid carcinoma.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, was ranked in the top 10 in all but one of 16 specialties, in the top 4 in 13 specialties, and was the #1 ranked hospital in 8 of the 12 data-driven specialties. This year U.S. News expanded their common procedures and conditions list to 9 individual measures, and Mayo was one of fewer than 70 hospitals to score High ...
Pain management is an aspect of medicine and health care involving relief of pain (pain relief, analgesia, pain control) in various dimensions, from acute and simple to chronic and challenging. Most physicians and other health professionals provide some pain control in the normal course of their practice, and for the more complex instances of ...
No snacking beside fruits and vegetables. Not too much meat or full-fat dairy. No drinking alcohol. No eating in front of the TV. No eating out. On the other hand, some healthy habits they want ...
GreenLight Laser Therapy has been increasingly performed as an alternative to transurethral resection of the prostate in order to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia, with several studies demonstrating comparable results with fewer side effects and complications. Typically, it is an outpatient procedure which provides immediate relief of lower ...