Science news articles about 'artificial kidney'

... at the Geffen School and a consultant nephrologist at the VA. Around 1980, an artificial kidney machine was built that incorporated many of the principles on which the new technology relies, ...

... emeritus at the USC School of Medicine whose accomplishments included co-creating an artificial kidney in the late 1940s and developing an early computerized prescription drug system in the 1960s, ...

... with each session lasting three to five hours. An alternative to this treatment involves creation of an "artificial kidney" in a process known as peritoneal dialysis (PD). Fluid is inserted into ...

... of the cell suicide of renal cells. Diabetes slowly destroys the kidney up to the point where the renal function has to be taken on by dialysis (artificial kidney) or a transplanted kidney.

Molecular targets identified by a Spanish research team may hold the key to freedom for some sufferers of kidney disease. A new study reveals the cellular signals which cause one treatment for kidney ...

After inventing the first artificial kidney, Dr. Kolff went on to prove that biomedical engineers could build all sorts of artificial organs.

... of Nephrology (CJASN). "Our vision of a technological breakthrough has materialized in the form of a Wearable Artificial Kidney, which provides continuous dialysis 24 hours a day, seven days a week," ...

... due to their large size, cannot. The hydrogen gas from a small fifty milliliter "artificial kidney bioreactor" has been directly injected into fuel cells and has produced enough electricity to power ...

... blood pressure. With hemodialysis, the kind investigated in this latest study, a filter functions as an artificial kidney to remove waste, extra chemicals and fluid from the body. Coronary artery ...

... on two processes: diffusion and convection. Conventional HD is diffusive; blood is circulated in an artificial kidney machine on one side of a semi-permeable membrane, while a special dialysis fluid ...

... the first version of what he preferred to call an artificial kidney, but which the world came to know as the kidney dialysis machine. Later, in the US, Kolff pioneered the artificial heart and ...