Sentences with phrase «by dialysis»

Daily activities performed by a Dialysis Tech include assembling machines, preparing equipment for use, positioning patients on the lounge chair, monitoring vital signs, explaining the procedure to patients, adhering to safety standards, and observing any adverse reaction.

Significant settlement for the estate of a patient injured by a dialysis center that improperly diluted an ingredient necessary to cleanse his blood.

Of all the thyroid hormones, only measurement of free T4 (by dialysis) is not affected by autoantibodies directed at T4 or T3, because the serum autoantibodies are removed in the dialysis step.

Compared with the total T4 assay, the free T4 assay by dialysis has greater diagnostic sensitivity and specificity.

(1) Transplants can cost as much as $ 15,000, preceeded by dialysis and other forms of supportive care (before and after) that can bring the total to $ 100,000 (U.S.).

Three specific tests will be performed, Free T4 by Dialysis (FT4D), Canine Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (cTSH) and Thyroglobulin Autoantibodies (TgAA).

Not exact matches

The pace of change driven by startups seems to be accelerating as companies devoted to essential needs — from reducing procurement costs and improving operational efficiency, to delivering more efficient primary care or dialysis care — try to do something about the sorry state of health care.

The worst performer in Buffett's portfolio was DaVita (dva), the health care dialysis company that treats patients with diabetes and whose stock has been punished by uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

Quest Diagnostics Inc says transaction is expected to be completed in Q4 of 2017, subject to customary regulatory approvals.Quest Diagnostics - Fresenius Medical Care's dialysis - related laboratory services business, Spectra Labs, is not affected by divestiture.

The company's products are used by hospitals, kidney dialysis centers, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, doctor's offices and by patients at home under physician supervision.

«Our facilities care for a very frail population, many of our residents are on ventilators, require dialysis or oxygen, for example, and are the same type of individuals who would have been cared for by hospitals 10 to 15 years ago,» she said.

MPI may be produced by filtration (Microfiltration, Ultrafiltration & Diafiltration), dialysis or any other process by which all or part of the lactose is removed by a safe and suitable procedure.

The family wishes to express a special thanks for the loving care provided by the South Austin Cancer Center, El Milargo Dialysis Center and Christopher Hospice House in Austin, TX.

«On one occasion, I saw him by chance and he told me that his mother was ill and was undergoing dialysis and he feared that she will die soon and N250, 000 was spent daily on her treatment,» he said.

Fewer deaths were reported among dialysis and kidney transplant patients in 2013, dropping by 28 percent and 40 percent, respectively, since 1996.

Doctors treat this by connecting patients to dialysis machines that act as artificial kidneys.

In the first study conducted with IgEnio, the MedUni Vienna researchers at the Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, led by Rudolf Valenta and lead author Christian Lupinek, Kurt Derfler from the Division of Nephrology and Dialysis (Department of Medicine III) and Ventzislav Petkov from the Division of Pulmonology (Department of Medicine II), were able to show that this absorption technique brings about a significant improvement in the quality of life for sufferers during the pollen season — even those with a greatly elevated IgE levels.

The answers, I learned, lay in the grinding poverty and entrenched corruption of India, the desperation of patients on dialysis, and the transnational nature of the black market transplant business — which, though dominated by the kidney exchange, includes livers and hearts as well.

Michelle Hladunewich, MD (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, in Toronto) and her colleagues assessed the effects of such intensive dialysis on pregnancy outcomes by comparing patients from Toronto with that from the United States.

Yet, a new study conducted by Mayo Clinic and the University of Michigan shows that only one - third of patients who ultimately receive a living donor kidney transplant receive it pre-emptively (i.e., before starting dialysis).

Researchers in Taiwan examined the association between ACEI / ARB use and the risk of long - term dialysis and death in a nationwide group of 28,497 patients in a study by Ta - Wei Hsu, M.D., of the National Yang - Ming University Hospital, and colleagues.

Investigators led by Suma Prakash, MD, FRCPC, MSc (Case Western Reserve University) wondered whether a model called the «behavioral stage of change» model, which was originally used to help people quit smoking, might help patients with chronic kidney disease take action and make decisions about their dialysis options.

The authors also acknowledge that although the costs of transplanting hepatitis C - infected kidneys into uninfected recipients would be high, they may be offset by savings from reduced dialysis time for recipients who would otherwise wait longer for a kidney.

Ip thinks his research could help humans with kidney failure, either by creating a more efficient dialysis machine or through gene therapy to enable humans to mimic the turtle and eliminate urea via the mouth.

Approximately half of individuals with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease eventually will require dialysis or kidney transplant by age 60.

«If maintained long - term, this could reduce risk of progression to end - stage kidney disease — where dialysis or transplant is required to survive — by 30 %.»

Dialysis treatments are cut short, routine lab tests have to be outsourced to the mainland and lawmakers cited a picture of surgeons operating by cellphone light.

Here we describe an affordable, safe, and scalable battery system, which uses organic polymers as the charge - storage material in combination with inexpensive dialysis membranes, which separate the anode and the cathode by the retention of the non-metallic, active (macro-molecular) species, and an aqueous sodium chloride solution as the electrolyte.

ARANESP ® is used to treat anemia, a deficiency in the number of red blood cells, caused by chronic kidney failure in patients both on dialysis and not on dialysis.

«Undaunted by renal failure since he was 12, he studied and worked here at Georgetown for over 20 years as a specialist in diagnosing and treating kidney disease while quietly undergoing his dialysis and transplants.

Even without the contamination from dialysis, since more than 95 % of aluminum is eliminated by the kidney, people with poor kidney function are more likely to store it in their bodies.

By the time she started dialysis, I had made a determination to learn all I could about health and wellness from a holistic approach to help her.

Unfortunately, dialysis and organ transplants aren't as accessible in parts of the world most affected by CKDu, meaning most farmers with the CKDu caused by glyphosate toxicity will lose their lives to it.

Your total testosterone is definitely high, but I am always skeptical of free testosterone levels if not done by calculation method, or equilibrium dialysis.

Pete was pretty shaken up by his condition... peri-diabetic, facing dialysis (his doctor wanted to start dialysis IMMEDIATELY) and all at the ripe old age of 30.

Under pressure from the international community and new scientific knowledge, such as preventing dialysis for a minimum of two years by repeated intravenous lead detoxification [87], the realization that low doses of toxic metals leading to an increased body burden [88] are a significant contributing cause of many disease states is finally becoming recognized.

Article adapted from Exercise: A Guide for People on Dialysis by LifeOptions Rehabilitation Advisory Council.

And Durham is not being overrun by skinny people, and the dialysis centers are not closing even though the Rice Diet center has been there for decades.

The weight loss phases of the Atkins Diet should not be used by persons on dialysis.

Starting out in a dialysis clinic, Mindy first gained experience educating patients suffering from kidney failure by helping them to improve their dietary planning.

In partnership Boston Children's hospital, this project is helping to educate doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals around the world in the use of life support technologies such as ventilation and dialysis machines by giving them access to interactive medical simulators.

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(4) Conduct a program for end - stage and renal disease research, to include support of projects and demonstrations for providing special services (including transplantation and dialysis), artificial kidneys, and supplies * necessary for the REHABILITATION of individuals suffering from such disease and which will (A) insure dissemination of research findings, (B) provide encouragement and support for initiatives and new approaches by individual and institutional investigators, and (C) establish and maintain close working relationships, with other governmental and voluntary institutions and organizations engaged in similar efforts, in order to unify and coordinate scientific efforts, encourage joint planning, and promote the interchange of data and reports among investigators in the field of end - stage renal disease.

They sell products in over 100 countries which are used by hospitals, nursing homes, rehab centers, kidney dialysis centers, research centers, etc,.

Definitive diagnosis is then made by performing a Free T4 by Equilibrium Dialysis (Free T4 by ED) and / or a «thyroid panel» that assesses the levels of multiple forms of thyroxin.

An elevated total T4 (T4) or free T4 by equilibrium dialysis (fT4ed) is the only definitive blood test for hyperthyroidism.

The best current test for hypothyroidism is measurement of thyroxine (T4) by equilibrium dialysis.

A free T4 (FT4) measured by equilibrium dialysis can be helpful in determining if hyperthyroidism is present in this case.

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Other tests would be up to your veterinarian's judgment, but may include a Free T4 by equilibrium dialysis, or T3 suppression test.