Items Tagged ‘kidney disease’
July 13th, 2017
The curious link between tall men, small babies and kidney disease
By Sara Tiner 
We are born with a lifetime supply of something you may not think about every day: Nephrons. Nephrons act as filters within the kidneys. They fine tune blood composition which in turn maintains our blood’s pressure, volume, and cleanliness. During pregnancy nephron development ends as a fetus reaches the last weeks in the womb. But […]
Tags: Andrew Rule, hypertension, kidney disease, low birth weight, medical research, nephron
June 19th, 2017
1 in 6 taking blood-thinning drugs may not be getting right dose, research shows
A growing number of Americans are expected to develop atrial fibrillation, a common heart condition characterized by an irregular and rapid heart rate. But almost 1 in 6 of the millions of Americans on new blood-thinning medications for a-fib may not be getting the right dose, Mayo Clinic research finds.
Tags: anticoagulant, apixaban, atrial fibrillation, blood-thinner, dabigatran, Dr. Peter Noseworthy, Dr. Xiaoxi Yao, Kern Center, kidney disease, Mayo Clinic research, medical research, OptumLabs
January 31st, 2017
Contrast Dye in Kidney Disease Patients: Reducing the Risk of an Important Diagnostic Tool
Building the evidence base for best practice Medical research has resulted in many amazing diagnostic and treatment methods, tools and drugs. Today a physician can look inside her patient’s body through the aid of radiation and iodine-based dyes in the blood stream – both of which could be deadly in another time or place. This […]
Tags: Clinical Imaging, contrast dye, Florida, kidney disease, nephropathy
November 25th, 2013
Mayo Clinic's Fifty Years of Kidney Transplants – Part IV
Pioneers of Kidney Transplantation at Mayo Clinic The first transplant of a kidney took place in Saint Marys Hospital on Nov. 25, 1963. Surgeons George A. Hallenbeck, M.D., and James DeWeerd, M.D., headed a medical team that performed the first transplant, placing a kidney in a female patient. The patient’s half-sister was the donor. Mayo’s operation […]
Tags: Frank Mann, George Hallenbeck, James DeWeerd, kidney disease, kidney transplant, Mayo Clinic, nephrology
November 25th, 2013
Mayo Clinic – Fifty Years of Kidney Transplants – Part III
The Numbers, for the Record Candidates on waiting list for kidneys for transplant (national) – Approximately 97,000 Kidney Transplants at Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic – Number of Kidney Transplants (as of June 30, 2013) Rochester ( since 1963) – 4,822 Arizona (since 1999) – 1,974 Florida (since 2000) – 1,186 Kidney transplant patients at Mayo Clinic are cared for after […]
Tags: kidney disease, kidney transplant, Mayo Clinic, nephrology
November 25th, 2013
Mayo Clinic and 50 Years of Kidney Transplants – Part II
[Editor’s note: We recently looked at benchmarks in kidney transplant history. Today more on the kidney and why it’s so important.] The Kidney’s Critical Role The kidney’s well-being is essential for the rest of the body. It acts as the main filtering system for wastes and the major factor in excreting them from the body. […]
Tags: kidney disease, kidney transplant, Mayo Clinic, nephrology
November 25th, 2013
Fifty Years of Kidney Transplants at Mayo Clinic
Fifty years ago, the prognosis for a patient with kidney failure was threatening to grim. Transplants of kidneys from one person to another were not mainstream medicine. In fact, a transplant was so extraordinary that TIME magazine described the treatment as “the most daring of all.” Kidney transplants still are serious operations today. But, since […]
Tags: kidney disease, kidney transplant, Mayo Clinic, nephrology
October 23rd, 2009
Rare Kidney Disease Consortium Slated for Mayo
Mayo is one of those medical centers that sees rare cases, diseases that have been diagnosed only a hundred or a handful of times. That expertise is one of the reasons why the National Institutes of Health is funding a Rare Disease Center to be based at Mayo’s Rochester campus. The grant that founded the […]
Tags: Dent disease, kidney disease, kidney stones, Lieske, Milliner, nephrology, primary hyperoxaluria, rare diseases