Sentences with phrase «kidney biopsy»

Researchers studied kidney biopsy samples from 24 patients with lupus nephritis and salivary gland tissue from 31 patients with Sjogren's syndrome and compared them to healthy tissue.

The test, which is described in a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), may allow patients to avoid invasive kidney biopsies when their transplanted organ is not functioning properly.

Video laparoscopy, in order to obtain diagnostic hepatic, pancreatic, intestinal, and / or kidney biopsies without the need for abdominal exploratory surgery is available.

«Right now, kidney biopsy, which involves removing a tiny sample of kidney tissue, is the standard technique used to assess kidney disease.

The optical probe would be expected to result in far fewer complications, although Shih and Mohan caution that more research is needed before it can replace the kidney biopsy for patients with renal disease.

Diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic glomerulonephritis (damage to area of kidneys that filters waste and fluids)-- more than 100 kidney biopsies are performed yearly for diagnostic purposes

Doctors rely on a combination of tools, including a medical history and physical exam, blood tests, urinalysis, and kidney biopsy.

Topics covered «Advanced Hemodialysis Monitoring Techniques and Demonstration of Fluid Volume,» «Delivery of Slow Hemodialysis Treatments on an Intermittent Hemodialysis Platform,» and «Pathology Interpretation of the Kidney Biopsy.»

Kidney biopsies (a snippet of tissue taken laparoscopically or surgically) might tell your vet more about what undesirable processes are occurring in an individual pet's kidneys.

But kidney biopsies are both somewhat dangerous and expensive and when the report comes back as «garden variety» glomerulosclerosis, your pet's treatment options are not enhanced.

Kidney biopsies are best reserved for situations where other results do not add up.

About a week later, the kidney biopsy and the culture all confirmed the doctors» suspicion.

Kidney biopsies are very useful providing guidelines for medical therapy in kidney disease, but they should be considered early in the course of the disease.

Rarely, a vet will decide to do a kidney biopsy.

Blood, urine and kidney biopsy are the tests used to diagnose but many times the prognosis is not good.