Acute renal infarction is a rare, yet potentially devastating condition marked by the sudden interruption of blood supply to the renal parenchyma, often resulting in irreversible tissue damage.

Renal infarction is a rare condition affecting probably less than 0.007% of patients, although true incidence may be higher. 1 Patients typically present with flank pain, nausea, vomiting, and/or ...

* Lecturer in medicine, Harvard Medical School; physician, Massachusetts General Hospital. † Research fellow in medicine, Harvard Medical School; graduate assistant in medicine, Massachusetts General ...

The presence of silent cerebral infarction (SCI) may predict an increased risk for worsening kidney function in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a study. Researchers led by Takashi Uzu, MD, ...

From the Urological Department, Massachusetts General Hospital. Read before the meeting of the New England Branch of the American Urological Association at Boston, May 17, 1932. Barney — Chief of ...