Nephrology is specialty of medicine concerned with kidney physiology, kidney disease, the treatment of kidney problems and renal replacement therapy. Systemic conditions that affect the kidneys (e ...

Any improvement in GFR will increase ACE inhibitor renal clearance (if the ACE inhibitor is one that is renally cleared) and in so doing do away with the original basis for the hypotension.

Kidney cancers are unique for a few reasons. One reason is that renal cell carcinoma can grow directly into the veins that drain the kidney and run up toward the heart. This growth of cancer into the ...