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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 ...
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 .
The human body has 78 organs and each one performs a variety of important functions. While it's possible to live without organs like the appendix, gallbladder, or spleen, several of our organs are ...
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 ...
And now, in all areas of my life — work, travel, social, family — I have a mental toolbox at the ready, a new appreciation for going with the flow, and a commitment to turning the page. I’d ...
Contractor walked off $116.M job Work restarts on Rt. 24/140 in Taunton.What to know about timeline, new contractor, more. Life with CKD and dialysis. Early on Turner switched from going to ...
The Nuts and Bolts of Life: Willem Kolff and the Invention of the Kidney Machine. Sutton Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-7509-2896-4. Herman Broers. Inventor for Life: The Story of W. J. Kolff, Father of Artificial Organs. B&V Media, 2007. ISBN 90-78430-01-X. Patrick T. McBride, Genesis of the artificial kidney. Baxter Healthcare Corp., 1987.
Mission Hospital doctors in the 1970s laid the foundation for today's dialysis program that has saved more than 10,000 lives over the past 50 years. Opinion: Asheville, WNC dialysis program today ...