News tagged with dialysis
Hello wearable kidney, goodbye dialysis machine
Researchers are developing a Wearable Artificial Kidney for dialysis patients, reports an upcoming paper in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). "Our vision of a technological breakthrough ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Community poverty impacts pre-dialysis care
The wealth or poverty of kidney disease patients' communities impacts the quality of care patients receive before starting dialysis, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Ne ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 05, 2010 |
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Blood vessels made from patients' cells
(AP) -- Scientists have grown blood vessels for kidney patients from their own cells, making it easier and safer for them to use dialysis machines, a new study says.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 24, 2009 |
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NY man's kidney transplant gave him woman's cancer
(AP) -- The scenario was unique, as far as doctors could tell: A man had gotten a transplanted kidney from a woman who had uterine cancer and didn't know it.
May 27, 2010 |
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Cut the salt and ditch the drugs: Controlling blood pressure in dialysis patients
For kidney patients trying to control their blood pressure, reducing fluid build-up in the blood is more effective than using antihypertensive medications, according to an analysis appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Jo ...
May 27, 2010 |
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Pomegranate juice: Beyond antioxidants, potential benefits for dialysis patients
Studies in recent years have claimed multiple health benefits of pomegranate juice, including that it is a good source of antioxidants and lowers both cholesterol and blood pressure, especially in diabetic and hypertensive ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 19, 2010 |
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France says its E.coli strain same as Germany's
(AP) -- France's health minister says experts are "99 percent sure" that the E. coli outbreak that put seven people in the hospital in Bordeaux region is the same strain of bacteria that killed 44 people - all but one in ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 26, 2011 |
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Diabetics get blood vessels made from donor cells
Three dialysis patients have received the world's first blood vessels grown in a lab from donated skin cells. It's a key step toward creating a supply of ready-to-use arteries and veins that could be used ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 27, 2011 |
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New statistical method shows importance of dialysis dose
A new approach to statistical analysis may be better suited to study the relationship between higher "dose" of dialysis and survival time for patients with advanced kidney disease, according to an upcoming paper in the Journal of ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Night home hemodialysis shown to be as good as transplant in treating kidney failure
For the first time, it has been shown that patients who receive night home hemodialysis live just as long as those who receive kidney transplants from deceased donors.
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Benefits of more frequent dialysis shown in new study
(PhysOrg.com) -- More frequent dialysis — six times a week versus the conventional three times a week — results in improved heart structure and self-reported physical health for patients with kidney failure, according ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Donating a kidney is not bad for your health, research shows
People who donate a kidney live just as long and are just as healthy as those with two kidneys, according to a new study by University of Minnesota researchers that is the largest ever done on the long-term health consequences ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Anti-microbial catheter to cut infection risk for dialysis patients
Medical experts at The University of Nottingham have shown that an innovative anti-microbial catheter could vastly improve treatment and the quality of life for many community-based dialysis patients.
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Before starting dialysis, patients need nephrologist care
For patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), receiving care from a nephrologist in the months before starting dialysis reduces the risk of death during the first year on dialysis, reports a study in the May 2009 issue ...
Mar 25, 2009 |
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More pills, less quality of life for kidney patients
The more pills a dialysis patients takes, the worse their health-related quality of life, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findin ...
May 07, 2009 |
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Dialysis
In medicine, dialysis (from Greek "dialusis", meaning dissolution, "dia", meaning through, and "lusis", meaning loosening) is primarily used to provide an artificial replacement for lost kidney function (renal replacement therapy) due to renal failure. Dialysis may be used for very sick patients who have suddenly but temporarily, lost their kidney function (acute renal failure) or for quite stable patients who have permanently lost their kidney function (stage 5 chronic kidney disease). When healthy, the kidneys maintain the body's internal equilibrium of water and minerals (sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sulfate) and the kidneys remove from the blood the daily metabolic load of fixed hydrogen ions. The kidneys also function as a part of the endocrine system producing erythropoietin and 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (calcitriol). Dialysis is an imperfect treatment to replace kidney function because it does not correct the endocrine functions of the kidney. Dialysis treatments replace some of these functions through diffusion (waste removal) and ultrafiltration (fluid removal).
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