Your kidneys are part of your urinary system and work to produce urine. Normally, the urine that is produced flows from the kidneys into a tube called a ureter. The ureter connects your kidneys to ...

A urostomy is an abdominal wall opening that allows urine to leave the body through a stoma. A nephrostomy is a temporary tube to drain urine directly from one or both kidneys. A urostomy takes the ...

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 ...

THE MORNING the nephrostomy was due to be inserted, my creatinine level shot up, nearly doubling. Had I waited even a day or two longer, the loss of my once “good” kidney would likely have been ...

A nephrostomy offers access to the kidney so urine can be drained when a retrograde approach is not possible. Nurses need to understand how to care for, and manage, patients with a nephrostomy, but ...

In current urological practice, clinicians decide whether to place a ureteral stent or nephrostomy, but evidence-based treatment guidance is needed. Routine ureteral stenting during bladder cancer ...

My worst medical nightmare nearly came true. When I wrote “How not to save a kidney” a few weeks back, I described how my transformed, now aggressive lymphoma had compromised the functionality of my ...