Anatom3DRenal hilum
Hilum renale · Ledvinná branka
Urinary system
Looks like
A notch on the inner edge of each kidney.
What it does
Where the renal artery goes in and the renal vein and ureter come out, with nerves and lymph vessels.
Keeping it well
It is the part the surgeon clamps first in kidney surgery. Stones and tumours of the renal pelvis sit just behind it.
Related conditions
- Acute kidney injury
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Bladder cancer
- Chronic kidney disease
- Dehydration & electrolyte disorders
- Diabetes insipidus (arginine vasopressin deficiency)
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Glomerulonephritis
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
- Hantavirus infection
- High blood pressure
- Hydronephrosis
- Hyperparathyroidism
- IgA nephropathy
- Kidney cancer
- Kidney infection
- Kidney stones
- Lead poisoning
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Poisoning & overdose
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Pre-eclampsia
- Renal artery stenosis
- Rhabdomyolysis
- SIADH (inappropriate antidiuretic hormone)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Wilms tumour (nephroblastoma)
- Yellow fever