13 June 2021, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. However, her birth didn’t go as planned. My second pregnancy wasn’t as smooth as we had hoped. My blood pressure and sugar levels kept fluctuating during the last few months of pregnancy. Due to these fluctuations, the doctors decided to go forward with a […]
Zhongwei Li and his colleagues describe how they can generate rudimentary kidney structures, known as organoids, that resemble the collecting duct system that helps maintain the body's fluid and pH balance by concentrating and transporting urine.
It is among the rarest-of-rare cases when the patient had kidney stones in such large numbers, causing severe distress to her prior to the surgical procedure.
To define the cardiovascular disease risk of patients with glomerular diseases, the research team analysed 2000-2012 information from a centralised kidney pathology registry in British Columbia, Canada.