As judged from his history, the patient initially appeared to have acute kidney injury (AKI) that was due to lower urinary tract obstruction, resulting in urinary retention with overflow ...

One complication that occurs in approximately 10%of patients is the development of a colonic stricture. Some of thesestrictures dilate over weeks or months, while others result inobstructive ...

This narrowed area is known as a stricture, or stenosis. If a stricture becomes too narrow, it may eventually block your intestinal tract. If you have an intestinal stricture and you eat something ...

The Optilume benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) catheter system is a novel minimally invasive paclitaxel-coated dilation system that has demonstrated substantial and durable results in urinary flow ...

"I think targeting things that make communities more vulnerable would be reasonable things to target to try and affect disease practices," says William Furuyama, MD. In this video, William Furuyama, ...

"It was interesting to think about the relationship between a disease process and a person's environment, and measure that and establish that relationship in a quantitative way," says William Furuyama ...

This is called an anastomotic stenosis. It’s also known as a stricture. It's not clear why stenosis occurs after gastric bypass surgery. But it is most likely to occur 3 to 4 weeks after the surgery.

The medication history of patients presenting with benign oesophageal stricture is compared with an age and sex matched control population selected from the community. Fifty five out of 151 ...

Objective Despite significant progresses in imaging and pathological evaluation, early differentiation between benign and malignant biliary strictures remains challenging. Endoscopic retrograde ...