Lower urinary tract injury following gastrointestinal surgery has increased, according to a review of data in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database. According to Renal & Urology News, researchers ...

Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is a condition of reverse urine flow. It can improve with time, but some people do require urinary reflux surgery. Your kidneys filter your blood and send urine to your ...

EL PASO, Texas, April 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Palmas Medical Center is the first and currently only site in the world to enroll patients in a clinical trial for a fluorescent imaging agent, which ...

In a trial, more patients taking tamsulosin were able to tolerate placement of a large ureteral access sheath for kidney stone removal procedures. Preoperative administration of tamsulosin improves ...

Your kidneys make urine, a fluid made of liquid wastes filtered from your blood. This fluid travels down your ureter tubes to your bladder, and from there, it passes through the urethra and out of ...

A retrograde pyelogram is a diagnostic test that looks inside your kidneys, bladder, and ureters with an X-ray. Ureters are tubes connecting your bladder and the kidneys. Typically, a retrograde ...

A surgeon at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town has performed a first in South Africa. Urologist Dr Danelo du Plessis successfully performed a donor nephrectomy — a surgical procedure to remove a kidney ...