Selected spinal cord injury (SCI) patients with profound spasticity may be treated by implantation of a baclofen pump for intrathecal administration of baclofen. The pump is implanted in the abdominal ...
A 47-year-old man presented with slowly progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD) of unknown cause. He has a history of passing a kidney stone at age 30. A stone analysis was not performed at that time ...
Shear wave elastography measurement of Young's modulus in a kidney. (Courtesy: Kwan Hoong Ng) Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as a persistently low glomerular filtration rate (GFR) — the rate ...