by Bruce Brown | May 3, 2022 | Medical
Choosing peritoneal dialysis (PD) instead of hemodialysis is an option for some people with kidney failure. Hemodialysis involves removing, filtering, and then replacing a patient’s blood. Patients usually go to hospitals or healthcare centers for hemodialysis...
by Bruce Brown | July 31, 2019 | Enabling Tech
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) drives artificial kidney research and development. ESRD patients have two choices for survival: a successful kidney implant from a healthy donor or 4 to 6 hours hooked to a dialysis machine 3 or 4 times a week for the rest of their...
by Alfred Poor | July 6, 2016 | General News, Medical
Modern medicine routinely performs miracles, swapping body parts and connecting machines to assist with essential functions when the patient’s body can’t perform them on its own. But there are limitations. For example, consider procedures that involve...
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by Bruce Brown | February 22, 2016 | General News, Medical
According a report from The National Kidney Foundation in 2012, it costs $87 billion a year to care for patients with kidney disease, not counting medication. With more than 100,000 kidney donors on the list for transplants, last year only about 17,000 patients...
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by Alfred Poor | November 16, 2015 | General News, Medical
Patients who have lost kidney function to injury or disease must rely on dialysis machines to cleanse their blood of excess fluid, salts, and toxins. This typically requires that they sit, hooked up to a machine in a clinical setting, for 12 to 15 hours every...
