Many patients with kidney disease also develop heart disease. New research offers a possible explanation.

Scientists have discovered an answer to the longstanding mystery of why more than half of patients with chronic kidney ...

Scientists have uncovered why people with chronic kidney disease so often die from heart problems: damaged kidneys release ...

The kidney's proximal tubule reabsorbs water, glucose, ions and other small molecules from the urine and thus maintains the ...

Pathophysiology of hepatorenal syndrome-acute kidney injury. Cirrhosis leads to an elevation in intrahepatic vascular resistance. Splanchnic vasodilation increases the production of vasodilators ...

Renal hypertension, a type of secondary hypertension, is often caused by renal artery stenosis, where arteries leading to the kidneys narrow, potentially leading to kidney failure if untreated. While ...