Objectives Childhood obesity is an important cause of end-stage renal disease. To date,
available markers do not characterize kidney changes, especially in the early stages. kidney …

Background and purpose To compare 4.5/6 Fr versus 6/7.5 Fr semirigid ureteroscopes in
terms of safety and efficacy in adult non-obese patients with middle or lower ureteric stones …

We review a collection of published renal epithelial transport models, from which we build a
consistent and reusable mathematical model able to reproduce many observations and …

Objective: In the initial phases of parenchymal diseases, the only finding would be an
increase in organ size. We aimed to provide percentile charts of solid intraabdominal organ …

Background Obesity in the pediatric population is a severe public health problem and is
associated with various comorbidities. Renal length is an important clinical parameter for the …

Background: Renal size is an important parameter in evaluation and management of a child
with kidney disease. Establishing the normal limits of renal sizes standardized against …

Introduction Estimation of renal size is useful parameter in the diagnosis of abnormal
structural change on the kidneys due to the adverse effects of chronic diseases like …

Diabetes is now becoming a major public health problem globally. It is increasingly
associated with renal diseases, particularly chronic kidney disease worldwide. A simple …

In urological and nephrological practices, evaluation of kidney size imparts a valuable
diagnostic parameter. Age, gender, body mass index, pregnancy and co-morbid conditions …