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2. Renal replacement therapy - Wikipedia

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   These treatments are not truly cures for kidney disease. In the context of chronic kidney disease, they are more accurately viewed as life-extending treatments, although if chronic kidney disease is managed well with dialysis and a compatible graft is found early and is successfully transplanted, the clinical course can be quite favorable, with ...

3. Hemodialysis - Wikipedia

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   Hemodialysis, also spelled haemodialysis, or simply dialysis, is a process of filtering the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally. This type of dialysis achieves the extracorporeal removal of waste products such as creatinine and urea and free water from the blood when the kidneys are in a state of kidney failure.

4. Kidney dialysis - Wikipedia

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   The decision to initiate dialysis or hemofiltration in patients with kidney failure depends on several factors. These can be divided into acute or chronic indications. Depression and kidney failure symptoms can be similar to each other. [citation needed] It is important that there is open communication between a dialysis team and the patient ...

5. Artificial kidney - Wikipedia

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   Several insights into kidney function and acute kidney failure were made during the war. [7] One in three American adults are at a risk for developing kidney disease. Over 26 million American adults have kidney disease and most are not aware of it. More than 661,000 of them have kidney failure and 468,000 are on dialysis.

6. Chronic kidney disease - Wikipedia

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   Stage 5: Established kidney failure (GFR <15 mL/min/1.73 m 2), permanent kidney replacement therapy, [62] or end-stage kidney disease. The term "non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease" (NDD-CKD) is a designation used to encompass the status of those persons with an established CKD who do not yet require the life-supporting treatments for ...

7. Home hemodialysis - Wikipedia

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   Home hemodialysis (HHD) is the provision of hemodialysis to purify the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally, in their own home. One advantage to doing dialysis at home is that it can be done more frequently and slowly, which reduces the "washed out" feeling and other symptoms caused by rapid ultrafiltration, and it can often be done at night, while the person is sleeping.

8. Peritoneal dialysis - Wikipedia

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   Peritoneal dialysis is a method of renal replacement therapy for those needing maintenance therapy for late stage chronic kidney disease and is an alternative to the most common method hemodialysis. Complications

9. Kidney disease - Wikipedia

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   Kidney failure is known as the end-stage of kidney disease, where dialysis or a kidney transplant is the only treatment option. Chronic kidney disease is defined as prolonged kidney abnormalities (functional and/or structural in nature) that last for more than three months. [1] Acute kidney disease is now termed acute kidney injury and is ...