Addition of manual daytime exchanges to automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) regimens optimizes solute clearance, but reduces quality of life and might increase the risk of peritonitis. Clinically ...
The Tablo System promises to make dialysis easier and more convenient for patients. But there are significant barriers to the technology. By Dawn MacKeen This article is part of Upstart, a series ...
Hundreds of people in southeastern Wisconsin are living on life support, waiting for kidney transplants.Carl Vowels, 45, prepares to do peritoneal dialysis every night before bed."It basically draws ...
Li Qingzhong, a 50-year-old farmer who was diagnosed with uremia, shows his 16-year-old son with the same disease how to do peritoneal dialysis at their home in Chengde, Hebei province, in April. Wang ...
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 22, 2023 – Brooke Army Medical Center is now able to offer inpatients an additional option for dialysis treatment to manage kidney failure.
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - A Jonesboro man recently received a life-changing gift, and now he’s hoping to help others facing the same struggles. Derrick Winters received a new kidney just two weeks ago, ...
KIDNEY substitutes that are effective in the management of chronic renal failure are hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Scribner's technic for hemodialysis developed in 1958–59, 1 employing an ...