The kidney transplant evaluation process starts with a visit to a transplant nephrologist and a transplant surgeon. These doctors will discuss your health history and physically examine you. You will ...
Share on Pinterest Bariatric surgery may be better for preserving kidney function in people with diabetes and obesity than GLP-1 drugs. Image credit: Ruben Earth/Getty Images. In a new study, people ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago man was the first patient at Northwestern Medicine to receive a kidney transplant that he was awake for. John Nicholas, 28, had been experiencing kidney issues for over a ...
The kidneys are among the most important organs of the human body. Every day they filter around 1,500 liters of blood, ...
Acute kidney injury is one of the most common and serious complications, especially in patients in intensive care. It ...
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Kidney shortages across the U.S. are causing those in need of a new kidney to wait years on a waitlist as their condition worsens, sometimes fatally. Roughly 90,000 people in the ...