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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: kidney dialysis + dialysis patients + dialysis  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)


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A pediatrician saved a baby girl?s life with a homemade kidney dialysis machine he created in his garage, the Daily Mail reported Monday. ...
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'DIY' kidney machine saves girl BBC News
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Dialysis Risks
Ivanhoe, FL -
Doctors routinely track alkaline phosphatase levels in dialysis patients because bone disease is a common complication in people with chronic kidney disease ...
Fundraiser at Eagles Club benefits dialysis center
Le Mars Daily Sentinel, IA -
Le Mars Area Dialysis Services will renovate the 13200 square foot building into a state of the art kidney dialysis center with the capacity to serve up to ...
Kidney dialysis company sees 24 percent drop in second-quarter profits
TheNewsTribune.com, WA -
DaVita Inc., the second-largest US operator of kidney dialysis centers, said second-quarter profit fell 24 percent from a year earlier when the company had ...
Sorbent Dialysis Systems: An Expert Commentary by Stephen R. Ash, MD
Medscape (subscription) -
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10 Warning Signs You Might Have Kidney Disease
MarketWatch - Aug 4, 2008
At the TOP sessions, Fresenius nurses and staff talk about managing chronic kidney disease, transplantation, dialysis choices and patient support services. ...
DaVita 2Q earnings rise on more patient visits
Forbes, NY -
AP 08.04.08, 7:01 PM ET Kidney dialysis provider DaVita Inc. said Monday its second-quarter profit rose 7 percent due to an increase in daily treatments. ...DVA
DaVita Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha, NY -
Here, it is worthwhile to make a small national editorial note that there is a growing number of US dialysis patients was seen their hemoglobin levels below ...DVA
Hundreds of athletes gather in Windsor, Ont., for Transplant Games
The Canadian Press,  Ont. -
Garner received a new kidney on May 4 after three-and-a-half years on dialysis. "When you're living on dialysis, you learn to live with that," he said. ...
Bone Disease Test Shows Death Risk for Dialysis Patients
U.S. News & World Report, DC - Jul 31, 2008
Alkaline phosphatase levels are routinely measured in dialysis patients to monitor for metabolic bone disease, a common complication of CKD. ...
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… of Mortality in All Patients on Dialysis, Patients on Dialysis Awaiting Transplantation, and … -
RA Wolfe, VB Ashby, EL Milford, AO Ojo, RE … - New England Journal of Medicine, 1999 - content.nejm.org
... Comparing the Risk for Death with Peritoneal Dialysis and Hemodialysis in
a National Cohort of Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. ...

… calcium x phosphate product with mortality risk in chronic hemodialysis patients: a national study. -
GA Block, TE Hulbert-Shearon, NW Levin, FK Port - Am J Kidney Dis, 1998 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... of hemodialysis patients who have been receiving dialysis for at least 1 year. Data
were obtained from two special studies of the United States Renal Data ...

Death risk in hemodialysis patients: the predictive value of commonly measured variables and an …
EG Lowrie, NL Lew - Am J Kidney Dis, 1990 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Am J Kidney Dis ... Short dialysis times were also associated with high death risk ... important
contributing factor to the mortality suffered by hemodialysis patients. ...

… beam computed tomography in the evaluation of cardiac calcification in chronic dialysis patients. -
J Braun, M Oldendorf, W Moshage, R Heidler, E … - Am J Kidney Dis, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Am J Kidney Dis ... of cardiac calcifications in coronaries and valves of dialysis patients
and to ... Forty-nine chronic hemodialysis patients aged 28 to 74 years were ...

… with hyperphosphatemia and hyperparathyroidism in dialysis patients: recommendations for a change …
GA Block, FK Port - Am J Kidney Dis, 2000 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... on its impact on renal osteodystrophy. ... is ineffective for a large segment of dialysis
patients. Currently, 60% of hemodialysis patients have phosphorus greater ...

Congestive heart failure in dialysis patients: Prevalence, incidence, prognosis and risk factors -
JD Harnett, RN Foley, GM Kent, PE Barre, D Murray, … - Kidney Int, 1995 - nature.com
... a strong predictor of death in chronic dialysis patients. Kidney Int 44:115?119,
1993 | PubMed ... predictors of mortality in patients undergoing hemodialysis. ...

Survival as an index of adequacy of dialysis -
BH Scribner, W Seattle - Kidney International, 1992 - nature.com
... Wizemann V, Kramer W: Short-term dialysis, long-term ... Lowrie EG, Lew NL: Death risk
in hemodialysis patients: The predictive ... Am J Kidney Dis 15:458?482, 1990 ...

Comparison of survival probabilities for dialysis patients vs cadaveric renal transplant recipients -
FK Port, RA Wolfe, EA Mauger, DP Berling, K Jiang - JAMA, 1993 - Am Med Assoc
... Mortality in End-Stage Renal Disease: A Reassessment of Differencesbetween Patients
Treated with Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis VONESH and MORAN J Am Soc ...

Quality of life in patients on chronic dialysis: self-assessment 3 months after the start of … -
MP Merkus, KJ Jager, FW Dekker, EW Boeschoten, P … - Am J Kidney Dis, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... New end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients who were started on chronic hemodialysis
or peritoneal dialysis in 13 dialysis centers in The Netherlands were ...

C-Reactive protein predicts all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in hemodialysis patients. -
JY Yeun, RA Levine, V Mantadilok, GA Kaysen - Am J Kidney Dis, 2000 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Am J Kidney Dis. ... has recently been recognized to predict albumin concentration in
dialysis patients. ... levels in October 1995 in 91 hemodialysis (HD) patients. ...

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Wearable kidney device may free dialysis patients

Last Updated: 2007-12-14 9:30:26 -0400 (Reuters Health)

By Ben Hirschler

LONDON - Patients with chronic kidney failure could be freed from fixed dialysis machines, thanks to a wearable artificial kidney that has shown promising results in a pilot study.

British researchers said on Friday the battery-powered device, developed by U.S. firm Xcorporeal Inc, had proved successful when worn for periods of 4 to 8 hours.

The long-term goal is round-the-clock use, doing away altogether with the need for patients to be hooked up to a fixed haemodialysis machine in a hospital or clinic for 12 hours a week.

"The device has the potential to become a practical means of delivering extended and more frequent dialysis to patients with end-stage kidney failure," Andrew Davenport of University College London and colleagues wrote in the Lancet medical journal.

Further tests are now needed, since their small study involved only eight patients, with an average age of 52 years, who were established on regular haemodialysis before being fitted with the wearable -- though rather bulky -- device.

The rate of blood flow and the speed at which toxic chemicals were removed from the body was considerably slower than in conventional dialysis but this was not seen as a problem, since the device can be worn for long, continuous periods.

Two of the patients experienced blood clotting, due to receiving insufficient anticoagulant medication, and one was temporarily disconnected when a needle became dislodged.

Nonetheless, all the subjects said they would recommend the treatment to other patients with kidney failure, the researchers reported.

Nearly 1.3 million people worldwide suffer from chronic kidney failure that requires treatment with dialysis. A lucky few receive a kidney transplant but donor organs are scarce.

In the long term, experts hope miniaturization and nanotechnology will provide more convenient and, ultimately, implantable devices that replicate the function of a healthy kidney.

"The wearable artificial kidney reported today is a small first step in the long road to wearable blood-cleansing devices," said Garabed Eknoyan of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

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