Nephrectomy WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Nephrectomy
Nephrectomy is the surgical removal of a kidney.There are various indications for this procedure, such as renal cell carcinoma, a non-functioning kidney (which may cause high blood pressure) and a congenitally small kidney (in which the kidney is swelling, causing it to press on nerves which can cause pain in unrelated areas such as the back). ...read more from Wikipedia
Fast Facts:
- Simple nephrectomy, radical nephrectomy, and laparoscopic nephrectomy are the types of surgery preformed.1
- The mortality rate after surgery is approximately 2%.2
- Typical hospital stay is between 2 and 7 days.3
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Research Notes References
- ↑ Aetna InteliHealth: Nephrectomy
- ↑ Medscape: Partial Nephrectomy Underused In Patients With Small Renal Tumors
- ↑ Wikipedia: Nephrectomy
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- Contributor: Chris Miller
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Contributor: Chris Miller
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Kidney Removal, Removal of the Kidney, Kidney Surgery, Surgical Removal of the Kidney, Nepherctomy, Nepherctomi, Removal of a Kidney, Removing a Kidney
- Last update: Sep. 23, 2008
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
