Kidney stone disease One ureteroscopic technique involves the placement of a ureteral stent (a small tube extending from the bladder, up the ureter and into the kidney) to provide immediate relief of an obstructed kidney. Stent placement can be useful for saving a kidney at risk for postrenal acute renal failure due to the increased hydrostatic pressure, swelling and infection (pyelonephritis and pyonephrosis) caused by an obstructing stone. Ureteral stents vary in length from and most have a shape commonly referred to as a "double-J" or "double pigtail", because of the curl at both ends. They are designed to allow urine to flow
Bladder Festival Bladder Festival The Bladder Festival or Bladder Feast ("Nakaciuq" "something done with bladders" or "Nakaciuryaraq" "the process of doing something with bladders" in Yup'ik), is an important annual seal hunting harvest renewal ceremony and celebration held each year to honor and appease the souls of seals taken in the hunt during the past season which occurred at the winter solstice by the Yup'ik of western and southwestern Alaska. On the Yup'ik Eskimo shamanism, while the hunter kills the body of the animal, he does not kill the "yua" (spirit or soul), which resides in the animal's bladder ("nakacuk" in Yup'ik)