Why remove a kidney through the vagina?Coco Ballantyne
they’re spiky crystals that form together to create a stone-like mass inside the kidneys. While smaller ones may be passed with urine, larger kidney stones can become stuck inside the kidneys or in the narrow tube connecting the kidneys to the bladder. In some cases, invasive surgery...
The grapefruit-sized kidney stone removed during that procedure has since been formally added to the Guinness World Records as both the "largest and the heaviest kidney stone" ever extracted through major surgery. A massive kidney stone was removed from a patient in Sri Lanka earlier this ...
the kidney cancer advances all the way up the vena cava into the heart, often rather rapidly. While this is a relatively rare occurrence, this condition could result in sudden death at any time from fragments of the tumor breaking off into the heart and lungs andsurgeryis absolutely necessary...
“flat polyp” that couldn’t be removed. My doctor said that he usually recommends surgery to remove this, but because of my age, as well as my heart (stents, high blood pressure) and kidney problems (they have been stable for years), he was not sure if surgery was the wise choice...
He who doth with the greatest exactness imaginable, weigh every individual thing that shall or hath hapned to his Patient, and may be known from the Observations of his own, or of others, and who afterwards compareth all these with one another, and puts them in an opposite view to such...
After two cancellations, the day finally had arrived for me to have surgery to remove kidney stones. Apparently, having a procedure to remove kidney stones is common with SMA. So why was I so worried? As I’ve explained before, I had hundreds of stones in me. I found out later that ...
Surgeons removed the smaller and less developed arm. They are unsure if the boy will get complete use of his remaining left arm, which Chen said has good circulation but poorly developed muscles and nerves. The boy has only one kidney and seems likely to develop curvature of the spine as ...
Surgery is used to reduce tumor bulk, but has little impact once the cancer has metastasized. Radiation is effective only in a localized area. The treatments can in themselves kill the patient, in the absence of maintenance therapy. For example, for some types of cancer, bone marrow ...