Sentences with phrase «dialysis patients if»

Supplementation is often necessary for dialysis patients if dialysis is going to be regularly performed for periods longer than one month.

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If the technique proves successful, it might also be possible to treat kidney tumours outside the body using intensive chemotherapy, while the patient survives on a dialysis machine.

In the early 1980s, a team in France found that dialysis patients with advanced kidney disease had fewer cardiovascular complications and longer survival times if they were overweight.

«Past studies and patient data have shown that we can improve a person's quality of life and chance of surviving end - stage renal disease if we can avoid or minimize the amount of time they spend on dialysis,» says Ankit Sakhuja, M.B.B.S., a graduate of Mayo Clinic Renal Transplant Fellowship.

For example, the authors suggest that hepatitis C - positive kidneys should be offered to uninfected patients who have a high risk of health deterioration if they continue dialysis — including elderly patients or those with serious co-existing conditions, such as cardiovascular disease — disadvantageous blood types or other conditions that would mean many years of waiting for an appropriate hepatitis C - negative kidney to become available.

If you are a kidney patient and going for regular dialysis process, the costs of the same will be taken care of by your insurance providers.