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What is Nephrectomy?

Nephrectomy is the surgical removal of all or part of a kidney. Indications for this procedure may include renal cell carcinoma, a non-functioning kidney and a congenitally small kidney. When one is donating a kidney for a kidney transplant, a nephrectomy is also performed on the patient.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Renal Cell Cancer 7 1 Efficacy_major
Polycystic Kidney Disease 1 0
Other 1 0

See 1 patient currently having Nephrectomy

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 1
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 0

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Nephrectomy

Hospitalization 7
Nerve pain (neuralgia) 1

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Having Nephrectomy (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Not indicated 10   Not indicated: 100%

See all 10 patients who’ve stopped having Nephrectomy

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Stopped Having Nephrectomy

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Nephrectomy

Always
 1 100%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Nephrectomy

Very
 1 100%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 0 0%
Not at all
 0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Nephrectomy

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 0 0%

Report created on May 28, 2012.