Lulua was diagnosed with stage five chronic kidney disease in 2022 and has been in urgent need of a transplant for the last few months as his kidney function worsens. He was in hospital throughout ...

Furoscix is expected to be available for CKD patients in April 2025. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval of Furoscix ® (furosemide injection) to include the treatment ...

Living with kidney disease Ryan’s mother still recalls how the family got the news. “I’ll never forget it, he was sitting on the couch and he had come home from school as a 16-year-old boy ...

“I am diabetic, and I also have polycystic kidney disease,” Solorzano said. “So whenever COVID happened, I got really sick with COVID, and then after that, my kidneys just went ...

For example, the estimated glomerular filtration rate (EGFR) indicates possible kidney disease when it drops below a 60 milliliter (ml) per minute rate. Other tests include the blood urea nitrogen ...

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Kidney cancer-- also called renal cell cancer-- is a disease in which kidney cells become malignant (cancerous) and grow out of control, forming a tumor. Almost all kidney cancers first appear in ...

Renal cell carcinoma is the most common form of kidney cancer. It can take time to fully process a diagnosis and what, exactly, it may mean. Developing a good understanding of your disease—and ...

What Is Renal Cell Carcinoma? It's the most common type of kidney cancer. Although it’s a serious disease, finding and treating it early makes it more likely that you’ll be cured. No matter ...

The five stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) indicate how well the kidneys are working, ranging from stage 1 (mild kidney damage) to stage 5 (kidney failure). The staging of CKD is based on a blood ...

One afternoon, Ben took his daughter for a walk alone and suddenly suffered a seizure in due to fluid build up on his brain due to his chronic kidney disease. Sam said: "He was lucky strangers ...