A urostomy is an abdominal wall opening that allows urine to leave the body through a stoma. A nephrostomy is a temporary tube to drain urine directly from one or both kidneys. A urostomy takes the ...

Your kidneys are part of your urinary system and work to produce urine. Normally, the urine that is produced flows from the kidneys into a tube called a ureter. The ureter connects your kidneys to ...

A nephrostomy offers access to the kidney so urine can be drained when a retrograde approach is not possible. Nurses need to understand how to care for, and manage, patients with a nephrostomy, but ...

I’m looking forward to when my cancer is entirely gone, the nephrostomy is no longer needed, and I can pee like the rest of humanity again. My worst medical nightmare nearly came true. When I wrote ...

Your kidneys make urine, a fluid made of liquid wastes filtered from your blood. This fluid travels down your ureter tubes to your bladder, and from there, it passes through the urethra and out of ...

DUSSELDORF, Germany, Nov. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cathetrix, a pioneering developer of smart catheter stabilization devices, will present two breakthrough innovations at MEDICA 2025 (November 17–20, ...

Tumor expression of cyclooxygenese-2 (COX-2) and vascular expression growth factor (VEGF) expression to predict survival outcome in locally advanced cervical cancer.

Correlation between fatigue level and irradiated volume of the whole body, lung and heart in breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery No significant ...