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2. Peritoneal dialysis - Wikipedia

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   Peritoneal dialysis was first carried out in the 1920s; however, long-term use did not come into medical practice until the 1960s. [35] The timeline was 1923 – Georg Ganter performs the first peritoneal dialysis in a guinea pig and attempts the procedure in humans, without success. Hypertonic saline was used as the dialysate. [35] [36]

3. Renal replacement therapy - Wikipedia

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   Renal replacement therapy includes dialysis (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis), hemofiltration, and hemodiafiltration, which are various ways of filtration of blood with or without machines. Renal replacement therapy also includes kidney transplantation , which is the ultimate form of replacement in that the old kidney is replaced by a donor ...

4. Kidney failure - Wikipedia

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   Treatment of chronic failure may include hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, or a kidney transplant. [2] Hemodialysis uses a machine to filter the blood outside the body. [2] In peritoneal dialysis specific fluid is placed into the abdominal cavity and then drained, with this process being repeated multiple times per day. [2]

5. Kidney dialysis - Wikipedia

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   Schematic of semipermeable membrane during hemodialysis, where blood is red, dialysing fluid is blue, and the membrane is yellow. Kidney dialysis (from Greek διάλυσις, dialysis, 'dissolution'; from διά, dia, 'through', and λύσις, lysis, 'loosening or splitting') is the process of removing excess water, solutes, and toxins from the blood in people whose kidneys can no longer ...

6. List of medical abbreviations: C - Wikipedia

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   continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis: CAO: conscious, alert, and oriented (no altered level of consciousness) CaOx: calcium oxalate: Caps: capsule: CAT / CT: computed axial tomography / computed tomography: Cath: catheter: CAUTI: Catheter-associated urinary tract infection: CBA: cost–benefit analysis (of treatment methods) CBC/DIFF ...

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   Trump blew up an initial short-term spending deal Wednesday that Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson negotiated with Democrats when the president-elect called for removing provisions that his ...

8. Kt/V - Wikipedia

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   Kt/V (in the context of peritoneal dialysis) was developed by Michael J. Lysaght in a series of articles on peritoneal dialysis. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The steady-state solution of a simplified mass transfer equation that is used to describe the mass exchange over a semi-permeable membrane and models peritoneal dialysis is

9. Convicted felons, such as Trump, can get permits to enter ...

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   The claim: Donald Trump can't travel to Canada because he is a convicted felon. A Dec. 3 Threads post (direct link, archive link) offers a theory as to why Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...