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2. 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.

3. Kidney failure - Wikipedia

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   Kidney failure can be divided into two categories: acute kidney failure or chronic kidney failure. The type of renal failure is differentiated by the trend in the serum creatinine; other factors that may help differentiate acute kidney failure from chronic kidney failure include anemia and the kidney size on sonography as chronic kidney disease ...

4. Chronic kidney disease - Wikipedia

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   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 kidney failure known as kidney replacement therapy (RRT, including maintenance dialysis or kidney transplantation).

5. 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 ...

6. Kidney dialysis - Wikipedia

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   Chronic dialysis may be indicated when a patient has symptomatic kidney failure and low glomerular filtration rate (GFR < 15 mL/min). [18] Between 1996 and 2008, there was a trend to initiate dialysis at progressively higher estimated GFR, eGFR.

7. 'I thought kidney failure meant I'd never be a mum' - AOL

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   When Tendai Chisambara was told she needed to undergo dialysis for her chronic kidney disease she was also told it would be practically impossible to conceive whilst receiving treatment. According ...