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Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/Kidney-watch-news.jpg 66 90 http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2007/live-kidney-donors-report-high-satisfaction-rates.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2007/live-kidney-donors-report-high-satisfaction-rates.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT Live kidney donors suffer minimal health problems and 90 per cent would strongly encourage other people to a become a donor if a partner or family member needed a transplant, as per a research studyof more than 300 people reported in the recent issue of the UK-based urology journal BJU International........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2007/better-alternatives-for-dialysis-patients.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2007/better-alternatives-for-dialysis-patients.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT But an unhealthy kidney costs more-about $16 billion more, as per Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, MD, PhD, associate professor in the division of nephrology and high blood pressure at the University of Cincinnati (UC). "It costs about $17 billion a year to care for patients with end-stage kidney disease," he said........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/8-2007/single-incision-belly-button-surgery.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/8-2007/single-incision-belly-button-surgery.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT Surgeons specializing in laparoscopic procedures at UT Southwestern Medical Center have successfully removed a patients kidney by performing a unique nephrectomy entirely through the belly button. Dr. Jeffrey Cadeddu, associate professor of urology and radiology, performed the single keyhole access surgery, the first of its kind involving a kidney. The entire procedure was completed with only one incision and will leave the patient with a barely noticeable scar tucked in the umbilicus, or navel........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/8-2007/radiofrequency-ablation-for-kidney-tumors.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/8-2007/radiofrequency-ablation-for-kidney-tumors.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT A relatively new, minimally invasive therapy was 93 percent successful in eradicating cancerous kidney tumors, as per a recent study conducted by scientists from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. I have performed a number of radiofrequency ablations of renal tumors and the results looked promising, said Ronald J. Zagoria, MD, lead author of the study. I wanted to scientifically review the data to better assess the results and look for patterns that might predict success or complications, he said........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/7-2007/a-gene-that-protects-from-kidney-disease.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/7-2007/a-gene-that-protects-from-kidney-disease.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT Scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the University of Michigan have discovered a gene that protects us against a serious kidney disease. In the current online issue of Nature Genetics they report that mutations in the gene cause nephronopthisis (NPHP) in humans and mice. NPHP is a disease marked by kidney degeneration during childhood that leads to kidney failure requiring organ transplantation. The insights might help develop effective, noninvasive therapies........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2007/kidney-cancer-study-published-in-nejm.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2007/kidney-cancer-study-published-in-nejm.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the New England Journal of Medicine has published their pivotal Phase III trial demonstrating that Nexavar (sorafenib) tablets doubled median progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), or kidney cancer. The data, as assessed by independent radiologic review, are from the Treatment Approaches in Renal Cancer Global Evaluation Trial (TARGET) – the largest randomized controlled trial ever conducted in advanced RCC. ....... ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2006/link-between-nanoparticles-and-kidney-stones.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2006/link-between-nanoparticles-and-kidney-stones.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT Scientists at Mayo Clinic have successfully isolated nanoparticles from human kidney stones in cell cultures and have isolated proteins, RNA and DNA that appear to be linked to nanoparticles. The findings, which appear in the recent issue of the Journal of Investigative Medicine, are significant because it is one step closer in solving the mystery of whether nanoparticles are viable living forms that can lead to disease -- in this case, kidney stones........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2006/sutent-one-of-the-new-targeted-cancer-drugs.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2006/sutent-one-of-the-new-targeted-cancer-drugs.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT The new "smart" drugs are a really exciting element of cancer medicine. One of the new molecularly-targeted cancer drugs is Sutent. It is a "multi-targeted kinase inhibitor." A drug that inhibits several proteins involved in triggering replication in cancer cells. Basically, inhibits various kinases, a type of enzyme that transfers phosphate groups from high-energy donor molecules to specific target molecules........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/obesity-an-advantage-in-hemodialysis-patients.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/obesity-an-advantage-in-hemodialysis-patients.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT Despite significant improvements in dialysis therapys, currently over 20% of the 350,000 maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients in the United States die each year. A study published in Hemodialysis International finds that this high mortality rate may be attributed to malnutrition. MHD patients experience what has been termed the "obesity paradox," wherein obesity is linked to increased chance of survival. "A larger body fat mass as seen in obesity probably represents protective reserves that may mitigate the adverse effects of malnutrition in patients," as per Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh M.D., author of the study........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/enzyme-for-treatment-of-diabetic-kidney-disease.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/enzyme-for-treatment-of-diabetic-kidney-disease.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine scientists have observed that an enzyme called ACE2 may hold the potential to treat diabetic kidney disease, the most common form of kidney disease. In the laboratory, scientists led by Daniel Batlle, professor of medicine in the Feinberg School, chief of the nephrology/high blood pressure division and staff nephrologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, have found low levels of the ACE2 enzyme in the glomeruli of the kidneys of diabetic mice. When ACE2 was further decreased with an inhibitor drug, kidney disease worsened. Studies are now needed using compounds that increase the level of ACE2 in the kidneys of diabetic mice to see if it reverses or prevents kidney disease from developing, Batlle said........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/more-hemodialysis-may-improve-survival.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/more-hemodialysis-may-improve-survival.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT A study recently published in Hemodialysis International observed that more frequent hemodialysis therapys (five or more weekly) can significantly increase the survival rate of patients suffering from irreversible kidney failure. Typical therapy in the U.S. generally involves three sessions weekly. The study examines the mortality rate of 117 U.S. patients. Those receiving five or more therapys per week were shown to have a 61% better chance of survival when in comparison to patients receiving conventional therapy........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/topiramates-increases-risk-of-kidney-stones.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/topiramates-increases-risk-of-kidney-stones.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT Topiramate (Topamax), a drug usually prescribed to treat seizures and migraine headaches, can increase the propensity of calcium phosphate kidney stones, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. A study - the largest cross-sectional examination of how the long-term use of topiramate affects kidney-stone formation - appears in the recent issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/kidney-damage-after-heart-surgery.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/kidney-damage-after-heart-surgery.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT The occurence rate of kidney damage linked to coronary artery bypass surgery has increased significantly over the past 16 years in the United States, but the rate of death from such damage has decreased significantly during the period, as per a new analysis. In their analysis of more than 5 million discharges from hospitals across the United States, the scientists at Duke University Medical Center observed that the occurence rate of acute renal failure linked to coronary artery bypass surgery increased almost five-fold during the study period. The scientists estimate that approximately 20,000 cases of the disorder occur nationwide each year........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2006/white-blood-cells-and--transplanted-kidneys.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2006/white-blood-cells-and--transplanted-kidneys.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT In an example of biological irony, the same white blood cell chemistry known to damage kidneys used for transplants may also help prevent such damage, as per a federally funded study in genetically engineered mice at Johns Hopkins. Scientists have long known that when blood flow is cut off and then returned to transplanted kidneys or other organs, immune system cells called T lymphocytes produce toxic natural chemicals that contribute to ischemic reperfusion injury (IRI). Nature cannot distinguish between deliberate surgical wounds needed to remove and re-implant a donor kidney and other kinds of organ damage in which certain toxic chemicals are needed to clean up or remove bad tissue........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2006/link-between-kidney-cancer-and-sunlight-exposure.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2006/link-between-kidney-cancer-and-sunlight-exposure.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:55 GMT Closer to the equator you live, higher your chances for kidney cancer. Using newly available data researchers have shown a clear association between deficiency in exposure to sunlight, specifically ultraviolet B (UVB), and kidney cancer. UVB exposure triggers photosynthesis of vitamin D3 in the body. This form of vitamin D also is available through diet and supplements. Previous studies from this core research team have shown an association between higher levels of vitamin D3 and a lower risk of cancers of the breast, colon and ovary........ ]]>