Artificial kidney is often a synonym for hemodialysis, but may also refer to the other renal replacement therapies (with exclusion of kidney transplantation)...

Kidney dialysis (from Greek διάλυσις, dialysis, 'dissolution'; from διά, dia, 'through', and λύσις, lysis, 'loosening or splitting') is the process of...

extracorporeal blood treatment." Willem Johan Kolff constructed the first artificial kidney; however, it was not very useful clinically because it did not allow...

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First-use syndrome is a rare but severe anaphylactic reaction to the artificial kidney. Its symptoms include sneezing, wheezing, shortness of breath, back...

Kidney transplant or renal transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). Kidney transplant is typically...

Haviland and Scribner launched the Seattle Artificial Kidney Center, which changed its name to Northwest Kidney Center in 1970 when its services spread beyond...

types of carbohydrates. Dialysis providing kidney function artificially. This requires an artificial kidney (a dialysis machine) and relatively long periods...

22-year-old man who was slowly dying of chronic kidney failure. This prompted Kolff to perform research on artificial renal function replacement. Also during...

An artificial womb or artificial uterus is a device that would allow for extracorporeal pregnancy by growing a fetus outside the body of an organism that...

the kidneys. It is used when the kidneys are not working well, which is called kidney failure and includes acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease...

of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (renal physiology) and kidney disease (renal pathophysiology), the preservation of kidney health,...

An artificial kidney is a machine and its related devices which clean blood for patients who have an acute or chronic failure of their kidneys. The...

Experience with the Yatzidis Charcoal Artificial Kidney". Transactions of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs. 11: 178–182. doi:10...

Willem Kolff constructed the first dialyzer (artificial kidney), and successfully treated patients with kidney failure using dialysis across semi-permeable...

his condition fluctuated. Doctors had an artificial kidney rushed to the hospital for him, but the artificial organ reduced his blood's ability to clot...

patron. He founded Gambro, which developed and commercialized the artificial kidney. He also established the Crafoord Foundation [sv], the proceeds of...

information Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, a form of artificial kidney dialysis This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...

around the world. Other examples of pioneering innovations are the artificial kidney, which laid the foundations for the multinational company Gambro and...

acquisition of Gambro. Professor Nils Alwall invented one of the first artificial kidneys in 1961. Three years later he met industrialist and businessman Holger...

An artificial heart is an artificial organ device that replaces the heart. Artificial hearts are typically used to bridge the time to complete heart transplantation...

Willem Kolff in the development of the first production portable, artificial kidney. Rose also contributed to the building of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem...

developed an artificial kidney (the Brigham-Kolff dialyzers) for use in the treatment of acute and chronic kidney failure. With our tradition of kidney disease...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a type of kidney disease in which a gradual loss of kidney function occurs over a period of months to years. Initially...

water dialysis system. Also, developmental versions of a Wearable Artificial Kidney have incorporated sorbent-based technologies.[citation needed] Sodium...

into the stomach to help stop lithium from being absorbed. Use of an artificial kidney to clean the blood (dialysis). This is usually done only in the most...

judged through his iris analysis that 74% of patients who needed artificial kidney treatment were normal. Another study was published in the British...

the Fleming Memorial Research Laboratory in Virology in 1965, the Artificial Kidney Laboratory in 1976, the Betatron ICMR Centre for Advanced Research...

of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy. KidneyX Redesign Dialysis prize. "Artificial kidney made by Indian American awaits human trials". Deccan...

new HDPE materials now used in artificial joints (a $4 billion industry). Merrill's pioneering work on artificial kidneys (with Colton and Britton in the...