Generally, you can trust your organs to stay in one place. Sure, they may puff up with air or constrict to pump blood, but they do so in the same location in your body. That wasn't the case for a ...

Generally, you can trust your organs to stay in one place. Sure, they may puff up with air or constrict to pump blood, but they do so in the same location in your body. That wasn't the case for a ...

After almost six years of experiencing a mysterious pain and a bizarre sensation of a ball rolling round in her body every time she stood up, a 28-year-old woman has finally been diagnosed with a ...

The body's organs typically don't move around, but one young woman experienced a strange issue every time she stood up: her right kidney dropped down. Turns out the 28-year-old suffers from a ...

Symptomatic hypermobile kidney is treated with nephropexy, a surgical procedure through which the floating kidney is fixed to the retroperitoneum. Although both open and endoscopic procedures have a ...

From the age of 12 I have had kidney and bladder infections over and over again I have a floating kidney thats inlarged, for the last four years I have had kidney stones up to 11 at a time, my ...

IT is a great misfortune to be afflicted by an illness that has long since gone out of fashion - such as "floating kidney". The case of the floating kidney is a much-cited example of a "non-disease", ...

Kidney failure occurs when the kidneys can no longer effectively filter blood and remove waste from the body. This can happen due to acute injuries or chronic diseases like diabetes and high blood ...