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Pressure from a mass of tissue or scar tissue is blocking one or both of your ureters. This causes urine to back up into the kidneys instead of flowing out of the body. Ureterolysis can help treat this problem. With this surgery, the ureter is freed from the tissue that is pressing on it. The ureter is then moved to a new position away from the blockage. Read on to learn about this procedure.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disease. This means that CF is inherited. A person is born with CF only if two CF genes are inherited. You have to get one from your mother and the other from your father.

Atherectomy is a procedure that relieves symptoms of coronary artery disease by improving blood flow to your heart.

Details about what to expect when you have anesthesia.

Remote patient monitoring is a term used when a health care provider gives you a device to track aspects of your health at home. Information from the device is sent to your provider.

A strip craniectomy is a type of surgery done on the skull. It treats craniosynostosis.

Serum sickness is an immune system reaction. It is triggered by antiserums or antivenins, and by certain types of proteins in medicines used to treat an infection or condition.

A prostate abscess is a pocket of infection in the prostate gland. Learn about causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and possible complications.

Doppler ultrasound uses harmless sound waves to evaluate and create pictures of blood flow inside your blood vessels. This test can detect narrow or blocked arteries and veins due to an abnormality pressing on them or blood clots inside.