Your surgeon will make a small cut in your back or side and place a tube into the kidney. Then they place a nephroscope (tiny camera) through the tube. The surgery can be done in one of two ways: ...

That makes recovery faster and less painful than it would be with open surgery, which requires a large cut. Most kidney donation operations take 3-4 hours. Open nephrectomy.

Kidney transplant celebration cut short by COVID-19. Customer says she got a response the first week of March. Since she canceled just a few days before the company launched their "Piece of Mind ...

Too often, would-be kidney donors are wasted because the friend or loved one they want to help isn't a match. Now a new national database promises to help find matches for those frustrated pairs ...

It cut death from cardiovascular and kidney issues cut by 24 percent. 3.7.24, 10:30 AM EST / Sharon Adarlo Image by Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty / Futurism ...

THURSDAY, Feb. 16, 2017 -- Encouraging people with kidney disease to reduce their salt intake may help improve blood pressure and cut excess fluid retention, at least for a while, a new study ...

In new long-term data (median 15.8 years) on 191 patients who withdrew from corticosteroids 7 days after undergoing a kidney transplant, versus 195 patients who continued steroids, there was no ...

She knew John went into kidney failure in 2017. "Dialysis was 3 days a week. And it just took over my life," says Fusco, an attorney. But these lifelong friends figured he'd get a kidney from a ...

Due to that change, in the first few months of 2023, nationwide, 14,300 Black patients had their wait times for a kidney cut by an average of two years. One of those patients was Dawn, ...