Urogenital Diseases: News and Research on Renal Insufficiency

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Unraveling the link between hepatitis and kidney damage

The hepatitis E virus affects the liver. But infected liver cells secrete a viral protein that reacts with antibodies in the blood and may form complexes that can damage the filter structure of the kidneys, as researchers ...

Fasting diet may aid kidney function, study suggests

In patients with chronic kidney disease, the loss of podocytes—part of the kidney's glomerular filtration barrier—causes irreversible disease progression. So far, physicians and researchers have found no way to effectively ...

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