Young adults who've had kidney stones may also have an increased risk of clogged arteries, a new study says. This does not mean that one causes the other, but instead the two conditions might have ...

Doctors in the United Kingdom readying to perform a kidney transplant on a young girl noticed the organ they were preparing to use had an unusual abnormality: Five renal arteries. Most of the time, ...

A renal allograft recipient (underlying disease IgA nephropathy) went into renal failure 10 days after transplantation. The donor kidney had multiple cortical cysts and 2 separate renal arteries. A ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Doctors found a fairly large aneurysm in the artery feeding 69-year-old Robert Lynn's kidney. If left untreated, the aneurysm - a bulging of an ...

Whether reopening narrowed kidney arteries benefits patients is a $1.7 billion question a North American study hopes to answer. One to three million Americans, most over age 50 and with uncontrolled ...

Doctors in the U.K. have announced a rare medical case where an organ donor's kidney was found to have five renal arteries. The kidney, which was about to be transplanted into a young girl, is ...

If you're among the hundreds of thousands of Americans with clogged kidney arteries, you might want to consider trying medicines before rushing into angioplasty to open them up. The pricey procedure ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Differing from individuals without kidney disease, higher coronary artery calcification scores in patients on ...

Patients with chronic kidney disease who undergo carotid artery stenting have a higher rate of acute kidney injury, which may be associated with hemodynamic depression, according to recent findings.

All the body’s vital organs depend for their efficient functioning on a generous supply of arterial blood, and all deteriorate when that supply is curtailed. Thus it seems logical for surgeons to try ...