Doctors often associate kidney damage and swelling with various disorders of the balance of hormones in the body. They do not have a special endocrine tissue, but despite this, some cells are abl...

There are anomalies in the development and anatomical structure of the kidneys in the form of changes in their number, location( localization) and size. A change in size is more often a decrease ...

Kidneys are a paired organ that is located in space behind the peritoneum. They are protected from external negative effects by ribs and large muscles on the back, but despite this, a kidney inju...

Human kidneys repeatedly pump through the whole human blood - about 1 liter per minute, filtering it from the products of decay, toxins, toxins, microbes. Such a solution, along with blood plasma...

Renal hemodialysis is a mechanical purification of blood from waste, liquid, salts, which is necessary for patients with insufficient healthy for proper functioning of the kidneys. Hemodialysis i...

As the statistics show, hydronephrosis occurs in about 4.7% of patients who have any malformation of the urinary tract. In boys, this pathology occurs, as is well known, 2 times more often, with ...

Latent glomerulonephritis is the most common form of chronic disease, which is manifested by changes in urine tests and a slight increase in blood pressure. This type of glomerulonephritis ...

Problems with kidney work, specifically hydronephrosis, require special sparing regimen, so the patient is prescribed a diet for hydronephrosis of the kidney. The development of the disease af...

A large group of diseases that occurs with an inflammatory lesion of kidney tissue is called - inflammatory kidney disease. Diseases from this group are most frequent, their frequency is on avera...

Tumor tumor is called focal formation associated with the pathological growth of the renal parenchyma, which includes pathologically changed cells. From the nature of tumor growth are classifi...

The tumor of the kidney is a pathologically altered area of ​​the renal tissue. It can be benign or malignant in nature, and the most common form is a cyst, a cavity that is filled with fluid. C...

Glomerulonephritis is a pathology affecting the renal glomeruli and arising as an independent disease or supplementing some systemic pathologies, such as hemorrhagic vasculitis, endocarditis inf...

A healthy kidney is known to have mobility, and it can move slightly, but not more than one or two centimeters. An omission of the kidney or a disease of nephroptosis is called its pathological d...

Among all extrapulmonary tuberculosis lesions, tuberculosis of the kidneys should be considered the most common form of the disease. Initially, with the development of tuberculosis of the k...

Concretions in the kidneys appear due to violations of filtration processes in the body and metabolic disorders in the body. In a normal state in a healthy person, all pathogenic chemical compoun...

As a rule, renal cysts are congenital in nature, with the exception of situations in which sinus cysts of the kidneys are formed. They often become the results of the transferred pathological con...

Kidney angiomyolipoma is a benign tumor in the kidney that can be attributed to a group of mesenchymal neoplasms. They include smooth muscle tissue and fatty tissue, epithelial cells and blood ve...

Hypernphroma of the kidney is a malignant tumor that consists of the epithelium of the renal cortical layer. This pathology occurs in 75 - 85% of kidney neoplasms in people aged 40 to 60 years...