INTRODUCTION Live kidney donation is an established form of organ donation but carries the risk of an unnecessary surgery in a normal individual for the benefit of the recipient. Long term effects of nephrectomy have not been studied in Indian donors so far. AIM The aim of this pilot study was to review the effects of kidney donation on morbidity (renal function, BP and proteinuria), psychoso...

Renal function can be significantly preserved after nephron-sparing surgery by decreasing the intraoperative ischemic duration or by performing off-clamp surgery. We report the case of a 56-year-old woman diagnosed with a minimal-fat angiomyolipoma arising from the renal capsule, which was successfully treated by retroperitoneoscopic partial nephrectomy without hilar clamping. Computed tomograp...

Pulmonary tumor embolism can be a cause of respiratory failure in patients with cancer even though it occurs rarely. We describe a 56-year-old man who underwent a pulmonary tumor embolectomy using cardiopulmonary bypass on beating heart combined with inferior vena cava embolectomy and right radical nephrectomy. Aggressive surgical treatment in this severe case is necessary not only to reduce th...

Renal cell carcinoma accounts for 85% of all solid renal tumors in adults. Nearly one quarter of patients has distant metastasis at presentation while another 50% develop metastasis during follow-up. A small percentage of these are solitary metastasis. We report here a case of solitary bone sternal metastasis as an initial presentation of clear-cell renal cell carcinoma in a 56-year-old woman. ...

We reported a case of metanephric adenofibroma in a 10-year-old boy to describe the clinical, radiologic, and pathologic features and discuss its treatment and differential diagnosis. Nephrectomy was performed for the patient; final histopathologic evaluation was that of a metanephric adenofibroma. Epithelial and stromal elements were both positive for WT-1, Vimentin, PAX2, and the epithelial t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the perioperative outcomes of robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy and standard laparoscopic partial nephrectomy in a teaching hospital. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Queen Mary and Tung Wah hospitals, Hong Kong. PATIENTS The first 10 consecutive patients who had robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrect...

Zheng Xu1∗, Mário A. T. Figueiredo2, Xiaoming Yuan3, Christoph Studer 4, Tom Goldstein1 1Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 2Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal 3Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong 4Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate our complications in renal and adrenal transperitoneal laparoscopic surgeries with Clavien-Dindo classification. MATERIAL AND METHODS Two hundred and eight patients to whom renal and adrenal laparoscopic surgeries were performed between January 2008 and June 2015 were included the study. One hundred and twenty one (58.2%) patients were female and 87 (41.8%) of them were ...

Adrenomedullin 2/intermedin (AM2/IMD) is a potent vasodilator peptide with organ-protective effects and is abundantly expressed in the kidney. We examined the expression of AM2/IMD in the kidneys of rats with hypertension or chronic renal impairment using quantitative RT-PCR, radioimmunoassay, and immunohistochemistry. Kidneys of 8-wk-old male spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Ky...