CHICAGO, September 07, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Doctors are finding that contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is so effective in imaging kidney masses in patients with polycystic kidney disease that ...

Aug. 28, 2024 — New insights into the biology of kidney cancer, including those informed by scientific discoveries that earned a Nobel Prize, have led to advances in treatment and increased survival ...

The key diagnostic tests include assessing factors such as estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), urea levels, protein ...

A research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has investigated kidney diseases using ultrafast ultrasound that captures 1,000 images in just one second. The research ...

Doctors are finding that contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is so effective in imaging kidney masses in patients with polycystic kidney disease that “they go right to CEUS and no longer bother ...

Sometimes all it takes is a little push. That is the conclusion of a recently published study in which doctors used a ...

You’ve probably heard of painful kidney stones. Find out where else “stones” can appear in your body, and how to tell. Sudden, intense pain is the hallmark of a kidney stone. See pictures of ...

from detecting kidney stones to monitoring heart function to helping doctors guide surgical instruments inside the body. Device manufacturers now develop more compact ultrasound systems and are ...

Your surgeon cuts a small slit in your back and inserts a tool called a nephroscope into your kidney to find any stones. Depending on the size of your stones, they may use an ultrasound probe to ...

Break Wave lithotripsy and ultrasonic propulsion are among the investigational noninvasive ultrasound procedures to treat kidney stones.

Additionally, ultrasound-imaging systems have been designed specifically for use in the radiation treatment room setup, and can return positional information with each image obtained. Preliminary ...

Transverse image of the liver shows a heterogeneous echotexture with diffusely increased echogenicity. This patient proved to have diffuse metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Ultrasound of the liver ...