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1. Types of Kidney Surgery
   Kidney surgery is usually done to remove a kidney. This is also called nephrectomy. Most kidney surgery is done for one of two reasons. Either there is a need to remove the kidney, or part of the kidney, due to disease, or a kidney is being removed becaus
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2. Arizona Transplant Associates, PC
   Doctors specializing in kidney, liver, and pancreas transplant and vascular surgery. Gives details about the surgeons, and patient information including forms, and insurance plans. Phoenix, Arizona.
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3. Rockville General Hospital
   102-bed acute-care community hospital located in the Rockville section of Vernon. Offering ambulatory surgery, 24-hour emergency department, walk-in medical center, diagnostic testing and treatment, laser surgery, maternity services, an inpatient hospice unit and a regional kidney dialysis service for eastern Connecticut.
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4. University of Maryland Urologic Surgery Division
   Offers a clear and comprehensive explanation of urinary system anatomy and diseases such as kidney stones and impotence with links to related Medical Center services.
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5. Transplantation Division - Emory University
   Specialty section of University website with consumer and professional information addressing heart, liver, lung, kidney, bone marrow and pancreas transplant programs.
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6. Cleansing or Surg 1000 ery
   Recipe book for liquid cleansers to eliminate gallstones, kidney stones, ulcers, high blood pressure, and elimination problems. Also offers natural salt, psyllium husks, and herbal mouthwash.
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7. Kidney stone
   Kidney stone Kidney stones are solid accretions (crystals) of dissolved minerals in urine found inside the kidneys. Also known as nephrolithiasis, urolithiasis or renal calculi. They vary in size from as small as a grain of sand to as large as a golf ball. Kidney stones typically leave the body in
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8. Dallas Texas Urologist Richard Bevan-Thomas, M.D. (UANT) * Robotic
   Urologist of Dallas Texas located on Medical City Hospital campus performing advanced Robotic & Laparoscopic Surgery for Prostate & Kidney canser. ... Robotic Surgery for Kidney Reconstruction
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9. St. John Health System
   Provides surgery residency, laparoscopic nephrectomy, kidney and pancreas transplant, cardiac disease, neurology, neurosurgery, obstetrics and childbirth health care. Located in Detroit, Michigan.
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10. Abdominal surgery
    Abdominal surgery The term abdominal surgery broadly covers surgical procedures that involve opening the abdomen. Surgery of each abdominal organ is dealt with separately in connection with the description of that organ (see stomach, kidney, liver, etc.) Diseases affecting the abdominal cavity are dealt with generally under their own names (e.g. appendicitis).
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11. The Sheffield Kidney Institute (SKI)
    Offers treatment for patients in the North Trent area suffering chronic and acute kidney disease, including dialysis and transplant surgery. As part of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Sheffield University, it also offers medical and research degrees in nephrology.
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12. Kidney Surgery
    Kidney surgery can be done to repair kidney abnormalities, remove cancerous tumors and preserve kidney function in children of all ages, including newborns.
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13. Cromwell Hospital
    London hospital provides private healthcare facilities for UK and overseas patients. Include cancer treatment, liver disease and transplant, pancreas and kidney transplant, neurosurgery, heart surgery, and IVF.
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14. Second Chances: Receiving the Gift of Life
    Inspirational stories about donor families and liver, kidney, and heart transplant recipients. Detailed medical information about the heart transplant surgery itself and also the process for getting listed for a heart transplant.
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15. Jesica Santillan
    Jesica Santillan Jesica Santillan (December 26, 1985 - February 22, 2003) was a Mexican national who entered the United States to obtain medical treatment, but died after an organ transplant operation in which she received the heart and lungs of a patient whose blood type did not match hers. Doctors at the Duke University Medical Center failed to check the compatibility before surgery began. Santillan, whose blood was type O-positive, had a heart condition (restrictive cardiomyopathy and secondary nonreactive pulmonary hypertension), that resulted in reduced blood perfusion in her lungs. She had been hospitalized at Duke University
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16. MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Kidney removal
    You will be given fluids through an IV and pain medication. Kidney removal surgery is often very painful because of the location.
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17. St. John Health System
    Provides surgery residency, laparoscopic nephrectomy, kidney and pancreas transplant, cardiac disease, parkinson's disease treatment, neurology, neurosurgery, obstetrics and childbirth health care.
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18. Insulin
    insulin deprivation due to the removal of the pancreas leads to death in days or at most weeks. Insulin must be administered to patients in whom there is a lack of the hormone for this, or any other, reason. Clinically, this is called diabetes mellitus type 1. Although it was evident to researchers that some secretion from the pancreas was responsible for glucose control, efforts to isolate the active principle were unsuccessful. Progress was only made when it was realised that the digestive enzymes also produced by the pancreas destroyed the active material during the attempts at extraction. Many around the
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19. California Pacific Medical Center's Kidney & Pancreas Transplant
    Provides information on kidney and pancreas transplant evaluation, living donation and surgery at California Pacific Medical Center and our Northern California outreach sites.
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20. MedlinePlus: Kidney Cancer
    Kidney Diseases ... It might include surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or biologic therapy. Biologic therapy boosts your body's own ability to fight cancer.
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