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Treatments List

Treatments could include:
  • Percutaneous Insertion of Nephrostomy Tube

Treatments Overview Articles

Unilateral hydronephrosis
Treatment and prognosis for unilateral hydronephrosis depend on what is causing the kidney swelling. Treatment may include: A ureteral stent (tube that allows the ureter to drain into the bladder; A nephrostomy tube (allows the blocked urine to dr...
Source:ADAM
Date:January 24, 2008
Hydronephrosis
Hydronephrosis is the swelling of the kidneys when urine flow is obstructed in any of part of the urinary tract. Swelling of the ureter, which always accompanies hydronephrosis, is called hydroureter. Hydronephrosis implies that a ureter and the r...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

Specific Treatments Articles

Ureteral Stenting
A ureteral stent is a thin, flexible tube threaded into the ureter to help urine drain from the kidney to the bladder or to an external collection system. Purpose Urine is normally carried from the kidneys to the bladder via a pair of long, narrow tubes called ureters (each kidney is connected to one ureter).
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
Ureteral Stents
Ureteral StentsAureteral stentis a soft plastic tube with holes in it. It’s temporarily inserted into a ureter to help drain urine into the bladder.
Source:StayWell
Ureteral Stenting
Ureteral stents are thin catheters threaded into segments of the ureter that carry urine, produced by the kidney, either down into the bladder internally, or to an external collection system. Insertion is most often done through the skin (percutaneously); however, in the presence of kidney or ureteral stones, stenting is ideally done during cystoscopy .
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Urinary Diversion Surgery
A urinary diversion involves removal of the urinary bladder and adjacent tissues and organs, and re-routing of the urinary stream. This may involve creation of an artificial opening in the abdomen called an ostomy .
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
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