Leo Shanahan, 4, began dialysis earlier this week as his health deteriorates - and he desperately needs to find an organ donor. The little Chester-le-Street lad was born with just one, mishapen, ...

For situations in which an ectopic dysplastic kidney is suspected, MRI may improve diagnostic sensitivity, compared with other imaging modalities, for finding small, poorly functioning renal ...

Once this patient was diagnosed as having an ectopic dysplastic kidney and an ectopic ureter draining into the vagina by MRI, she was taken to the operating room for laparoscopic extirpation of ...

On occasion, kidney dysplasia occurs in only one kidney, and doesn’t require treatment or hospitalisation. But in others chronic kidney disease and even failure can occur, requiring dialysis and ...

A brave four-year-old boy from Chester-le-Street is in urgent need of a kidney donor as his health continues to deteriorate.