Article updated and reviewed by Nader Najafian, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician,
Kidney Transplantation is the surgical procedure of placing a fully functioning kidney into a person with severe kidney failure. This procedure is usually an elective one, performed in patients who have undergone careful preoperative assessment and preparation, since
A recent study sponsored by the National Institute of Health of the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension found a link... Read more »
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Kidney diseases are disorders that affect the kidneys; the two organs that remove waste products, produce certain hormones, and regulate the level of... Read more »
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Two of the most common kidney disorders due to infections are glomerulonephritis and bacterial pyelo-nephritis (pyelos means pelvis of the kidney +... Read more »