Kidney treatments

Understand your treatment options.

Explore procedures, expected recovery, indicative costs and the clinics that provide each treatment.

✓ Plain-language treatment guides✓ Indicative prices where available✓ Find clinics offering each treatment
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Diagnostic & Interventional
from $671 - $1 397

Nuclear renal scan (renogram)

A nuclear renal scan (renogram) is a safe, radiation-based imaging test that shows how well each kidney is working and how urine…

Duration: 1–2 hoursRecovery: None neededNone
6 clinics · 0 specialistsView treatment
Surgical
from $12 000 - $23 000

Nephroureterectomy

A nephroureterectomy is surgery to remove an entire kidney, its ureter, and usually a small cuff of the bladder — most often…

Duration: 2–4 hoursRecovery: 6–12 weeksGeneral
7 clinics · 0 specialistsView treatment
Surgical
from $2 500 - $6 997

Nephrostomy tube placement

A nephrostomy tube is a thin catheter placed through the skin directly into the kidney to drain urine when it can't flow…

Duration: 20–30 minutesRecovery: 1–2 daysLocal
7 clinics · 0 specialistsView treatment
Surgical
from $5 000 - $20 000

Nephropexy

Nephropexy is a surgical procedure that repositions and fixes a mobile, "floating" kidney back in its normal place in the upper abdomen,…

Duration: 1-3 hoursRecovery: 2 weeksGeneral
7 clinics · 0 specialistsView treatment
Surgical
from $5 000 - $30 000

Nephrectomy (total, partial, or radical)

Nephrectomy is surgery to remove all or part of a kidney. It is performed as a partial (kidney-sparing), radical (total), or living-donor…

Duration: 2–4 hoursRecovery: 6–8 weeksGeneral
2 clinics · 3 specialistsView treatment
Diagnostic & Interventional
from $400 - $1 500

MRI urogram

An MRI urogram is a painless, radiation-free scan that gives your care team detailed images of your kidneys, ureters and bladder —…

Duration: 20–60 minutesRecovery: None neededNone
6 clinics · 0 specialistsView treatment
Stone & Obstruction
from $5 000 - $10 000

Mini-PCNL

Mini-PCNL is a keyhole kidney surgery that removes large kidney stones through a small puncture in the back, using narrower instruments than…

Duration: 1-3 hoursRecovery: 2–4 weeksGeneral
4 clinics · 0 specialistsView treatment
Stone & Obstruction
from $3 500 - $15 000

Micro-PCNL / Ultra-mini PCNL

Micro-PCNL and ultra-mini PCNL are keyhole procedures that remove kidney stones through a needle- or pen-sized puncture in the back — a…

Duration: 45–90 minutesRecovery: 1–2 weeksGeneral
4 clinics · 0 specialistsView treatment
Surgical
from $9 000 - $22 998

Laparoscopic pyeloplasty

Laparoscopic pyeloplasty is keyhole (minimally invasive) surgery that repairs a blocked or narrowed ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) — the point where the kidney's…

Duration: 2–4 hoursRecovery: 4–6 weeksGeneral
7 clinics · 2 specialistsView treatment
Surgical
from $8 000 - $20 000

Laparoscopic nephrectomy

Laparoscopic nephrectomy is keyhole (minimally invasive) surgery to remove a kidney, or part of one, through a few small incisions in the…

Duration: 3–4 hoursRecovery: 4–6 weeksGeneral
7 clinics · 2 specialistsView treatment
Diagnostic & Interventional
from $3 000 - $10 000

Kidney biopsy (renal biopsy)

A kidney biopsy removes one or more tiny samples of kidney tissue, usually with a thin needle guided by ultrasound, so a…

Duration: 30–60 minutesRecovery: 1–2 weeksLocal
6 clinics · 2 specialistsView treatment