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 ...

While randomized comparative trials are needed, a relatively new treatment option for upper urinary tract cancers shows promise for lowering long-term recurrence in many patients with low-grade ...

While randomized comparative trials are needed, a relatively new treatment option for upper urinary tract cancers shows promise for lowering long-term recurrence in many patients with low-grade ...