NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For children and adolescents with conditions that require frequent placement of intravenous lines, administration of 50% nitrous oxide makes the process of IV…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of etanercept and cyclophosphamide might be a risky one in patients with Wegener’s Granulomatosis, especially with those who have long-term, chronic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In most patients with localized renal cancer, simple enucleation may provide results equivalent to those of standard partial nephrectomy, Italian researchers report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study from Japan finds that sodium bicarbonate plus sodium chloride is more effective than sodium chloride alone for the prevention of contrast-induced…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drug-related pneumonitis is a class-effect toxicity of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors and temsirolimus is no exception, new research confirms. In the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Removing more lymph nodes from patients with lymph node positive renal cell carcinoma meant fewer died of the disease, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sodium bicarbonate isn’t any more effective than sodium chloride at preventing contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in patients with diabetic nephropathy, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In cases of elective partial nephrectomy for localized renal cortical tumors, a warm ischemia time of up to 20 minutes is not associated…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor and an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) is often prescribed for elderly patients who do not…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Percutaneous balloon angioplasty with stenting of renal artery stenosis (RAS) added to medical therapy reduces the need for antihypertensive medication slightly, but otherwise…