Dave deBronkart

Diagnosed incidentally with stage IV, grade 4 metastatic renal cell carcinoma, I had bone metastases in my femur (which eventually fractured), ulna, and cranium; five metastases in my lungs; and muscle metastases in my thigh and tongue. Yet six months after diagnosis, my treatment ended: I've not had a drop of anything since.

American Writer

Joseph Murray

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

American Scientist

Joe Murray

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

American Artist

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

Use 'renal' when discussing medical topics concerning the kidneys.

Medical Context

'Renal' is a technical term; use it in formal medical or scientific discussions.

Technical Term

Combine 'renal' with words like 'failure', 'disease', to describe kidney-related health problems.

Health Conditions

 more water you drink the safer you'll be and that is not in fact true because you lose a huge amount of salt if you sweat a great deal and drinking too much water can result in renal failure and another condition which whose name might naturally have forgotten because of a lack of salt and that can be potentially

Safari Live - Day 292 PIPE...

 You can't hear as well for the rest of your life. You can't breathe as well. You've lost a third of your lung capacity by the age of five. And even skin infection, which we originally thought wasn't that big a problem, mild skin infections naught to five give you a greatly increased chance of renal failure,

Paul Pholeros: How to...

 And I memorized everything. I memorized in my anatomy class the origins and exertions of every muscle, every branch of every artery that came off the aorta, differential diagnoses obscure and common. I even knew the differential diagnosis in how to classify renal tubular acidosis. And all the while,

Brian Goldman: Doctors...

 Another key, regulatory system is the urinary system, which includes the kidneys ureters bladder and urethra The urinary or renal system maintains the body's electrolyte levels and filters wastes from the blood This waste is sent through the blood vessels into the kidneys and then expelled as urine

Human Body 101 PIPE...

 time of Reno officially came into being and may 9th 1868 Reno is home to a variety of recreational activities in the summer renal Ogle's can be found near three major bodies of water lake tahoe the Truckee River and pyramid lake skiing snowboarding are among the most

Geographic Bee 2010 - NV...

 The big growth industry are these. What you die of is increasing organ failure, with your respiratory, cardiac, renal, whatever organs packing up. Each of these would be an admission to an acute care hospital, at the end of which, or at some point during which,

Peter Saul: Let's talk...

 will die of cancer the big growth industry of these what you die of is increasing organ failure with your respiratory cardiac renal whatever organs packing up each of these would be an admission to an acute care hospital at the end of which or at some point

Let's talk about dying -...

 because I went for the hospital and died of renal failure legally died of renal failure but a number of minutes later like these stumps that were giving up for dead like I was given up for dead surprise surprise they came back to life

One Man’s Mission to...

 A cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue. How does that happen? Where does medical ability end and start? Well, so what I read on "The prognosis is poor for progressing renal cell cancer.

Dave deBronkart: Meet...

 cancer, heart disease, lung disease, renal disease, dementia -- how did we improve patient experience? "I want to be at home, Doc." "OK, we'll bring the care to you." Quality of life, enhanced.