Feb. 12, 2016 — Vanderbilt University Medical Center nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. William Fissell IV is making major progress on a first - of - its kind device to
free kidney patients from dialysis.
Not exact matches
The median number of
kidney failure -
free days for
patients who did not survive, who experienced
kidney failure, or both was 9 days in the vasopressin group and 13 days in the norepinephrine group.
At London's Royal
Free Hospital, an app called Streams, developed by the Google - financed company DeepMind, is helping to quickly detect when
patients are experiencing
kidney failure and alert nurses to these emergencies.
Different combinations of drugs are often necessary to keep
patients free from symptoms depending on the severity of their condition, presence of other diseases (particularly
kidney or liver dysfunction), and tolerance of the medications.
Diabetes
patients who maintain near - normal HbA1c values can gain an extra five years of life, eight years of sight, and six years
free from
kidney disease