Phosphate binders are often prescribed with meals for people with kidney disease to reduce the uptake of phosphate in food.

Renal artery stenosis can lead to high blood pressure and kidney damage. Learn about its symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment approaches.

Acute renal failure is the generic term for an abrupt and sustained decrease in renal function resulting in retention of nitrogenous (urea and creatinine) and non-nitrogenous waste products. Depending ...

The hypertensive index may distinguish which patients with renal artery stenosis are likely to recover kidney function after renal revascularization. The findings may aid patient selection for the ...

Augmented right renal veins were anastomosed end-to-side to the external iliac vein, and the right renal arteries with aortic patches were anastomosed end-to-side to the external iliac artery in all ...

Recor, now a division of Otsuka Medical Devices, first began working on its Paradise system in 2009. The ultrasound-powered device uses the vibrations to generate heat that disables the nerves ...

Computed tomography (CT) angiography revealed multiple aneurysms arising from the right renal artery. The largest measured 5 x 4.5 cm in size, had a peripheral rim of calcification, and arose from the ...

THE appreciation of renal-artery lesions as a cause of systemic hypertension began with the work of Goldblatt et al.1 in 1934. This experimental finding was immediately implicated in human hyperten ...

Ex vivo renal artery reconstruction is usually reserved for complex aneurysms. For simpler procedures, your doctor may use other surgical techniques that don’t require removing your kidney.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Medtronic’s Symplicity Spyral ™ renal denervation (RDN) system as an adjunctive treatment in patients with hypertension in whom lifestyle ...

November 7, 2023—Recor Medical announced it has received United States FDA approval for its Paradise ultrasound renal denervation (RDN) system for the treatment of hypertension. A subsidiary of Otsuka ...

Renal denervation reduces office systolic blood pressure by an average of 4–6 mm Hg more than control patients and is proposed as an adjunctive treatment to pharmacotherapy for patients with ...