Lithotripsy For Kidney Stones
As ‘breaking’ and ‘stones’ are the meanings of the two Latin syllables of the word ‘Lithotripsy’, one can easily deduce from the knowledge of it being a medical procedure that lithotripsy is a technique for breaking down of stones in…
Life After a Kidney Transplant
A kidney transplant is surely a life-saving procedure. It is a procedure of replacing a dysfunctional kidney with a working donated kidney. As dialysis can only be a bridge between kidney failure and transplantation, it can never substitute a real…
Everything to know about Kidney Cancer
The importance of the kidney as an organ is incredibly inevitable. This organ is so incredible that its continuous functionality of getting waste out and maintaining balance in the body is not even felt while one goes about the day….
Frequent urination causes and symptoms
It is not a single-step mechanism to be able to urinate. There are many physiological processes that control the formation of urine and also control the frequency of your urination. These processes are obviously interrelated with each other. Any alteration…
Hepatitis B vaccine
With the growing rate of biohazard lately, the necessity of awareness regarding diseases has been increasing inevitably. One of the methods of this awareness is to understand the outspread of biohazards in the past world. We can do that by…
Hepatitis C and Hemodialysis
During hemodialysis, the body remains at high risk of getting infected by the hepatitis C virus. HCV infection during the condition of the patient in which he must remain under regular dialysis causes the chances of survival of the patient…
Pros and Cons of Renal Transplant
Kidney transplants are one of the most common transplant surgeries done globally. In India alone, around 10,000 kidney transplants are done each year. The success rate for this surgery is around 90%. What is a kidney transplant? A surgery where…
Bedwetting: Causes and Treatments
Something only seems to become a worrisome condition when it is categorized as an unusual act. Bedwetting is very common but till a specific age and in a specific amount. When the act of urination becomes an involuntary act in…
Advantages and Disadvantages of Non-Living Kidney Donation
Kidney disease can lead for a patient to end up on dialysis which can be difficult and is not a permanent solution. Fortunately, there is the option of a kidney transplant to expand the life span of the patient but…