In this rare condition, there’s a small, weakened section of the artery wall in one or both of your kidneys. Typically, there are no symptoms. If the aneurysm tears, you may feel pain in your flank.

It can usually be controlled by the same blood pressure drugs. Some people with renal hypertension can be helped by angioplasty, stenting, or surgery on the blood vessels of the kidney.

Urine volume (Table 1). Urine flows averaging 2.5 ml per minute from the right and 2.7 ml from the left kidney were obtained during the control periods.Constriction of the left renal artery caused ...

An arteriovenous fistula (AV fistula) is a connection created between an artery and a vein. People with end-stage kidney disease often need an AV fistula in their arm as a way to provide access for ...

"We thought of a better procedure, which we call RADAR, where instead of joining the vein to the artery [as is done with the conventional approach], we join the artery to the vein and while it ...

Lorenz et al. Prevalence of Renal Artery and Kidney Abnormalities by Computed Tomography among Healthy Adults. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2010; DOI: 10.2215/CJN.07641009 ...

SINGAPORE - A kidney patient at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) died in 2016 from acute haemorrhage after an artery and a vein were accidentally punctured during the catheter insertion procedure for ...

It damages the blood vessels of the kidneys: Hypertension makes the heart work harder pumping excess blood through the arteries and veins. Over a period, it becomes too much for the delicate blood ...

After they're done stitching the kidney to the blood supply, the surgeons take a crucial step: They unclamp the artery and vein to let Looney's blood flow into the pig organ.

Some abnormalities such as narrowing of the renal arteries, scars in the kidney, and masses in the kidney (several of which were early cancers) were found more often in patients over 50 years of age.