Sentences with phrase «kidney dialysis as»

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Twenty patients with kidney failure, for example, showed levels of ammonia and acetone more than 10 times that of healthy controls, and the researchers could watch those levels fall back to normal as the patients received dialysis treatment.

In medicine, renal dialysis is a method for removing waste such as urea from the blood when the kidneys are incapable of this (i.e. in renal failure).

The past century's great advances in medical diagnosis and treatment — including kidney dialysis, artificial body parts such as lenses and joints, magnetic resonance imaging, and genetic testing — could have happened only with crucial contributions from physical scientists and engineers, who will also be needed for the next generation of health care miracles.

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

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.

Kidney dialysis is often used as a treatment, but the best long - term solution is transplant, usually from a recently - deceased donor.

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.

Dialysis and kidney transplantation can serve as successful strategies to treat patients who have lost kidney function; however, regenerative medicine could make it possible to replace lost or damaged tissue, or replace the kidney entirely.

«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.

As a person with kidney disease having to take dialysis three days a week, she cleaned people's houses in the «nice neighborhoods» part - time while taking care of my siblings and I full - time, making sure we always had a full breakfast, a packed lunch for school, a snack waiting for us when we returned home and dinner before off to bed.

I work in nephrology (kidney disease) and I'm still prescribing the same medications and doing the same dialysis as when I went to medical school 20 years ago.

Prebiotics, like probiotics (such as live - culture yogurt — substances which actually contain the same bacteria which are the beneficial flora in the human digestive tract), help promote regularity, prevent yeast overgrowth and are beneficial for those with Crohn's disease, colitis or who are on kidney dialysis.

As your kidney disease becomes worse or when you are on dialysis, you will need to watch how much you drink.

Plasma PLP concentrations are also low in patients receiving maintenance kidney dialysis or intermittent peritoneal dialysis, as well as those who have undergone a kidney transplant, perhaps due to increased metabolic clearance of PLP.

One this that can be said about the kidneys, is that these are probably the same kind as in Metal Gear Solid 4, the ones that need dialysis with a machine and synthetic white blood (notice the white veins).

The final season also dealt with a health crisis as Dawn went on dialysis due to kidney failure, leading to an unexpected shift in the relationships between the nurses.

This lesson describes the process of dialysis and asks students to compare the advantages and disadvantages of different kidney treatments such as...

If dog kidney failure has already started, treatment is still possible with more aggressive approaches such as canine kidney dialysis.

Cats with advanced kidney failure are not good candidates either, although dialysis (available at advanced critical care facilities such as those that perform kidney transplants) may improve the values.

Dialysis, or as a last resort, kidney transplantation can save the patient, although the costs can be prohibitive for most owners (see below).»

Research Interests Critical care of polytrauma patients, troponin as a biomarker in traumatic myocarditis, the application of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (dialysis) for companion animals with acute kidney failure, advanced therapeutic approaches to immune mediated hemolytic anemia, and novel laboratory assessment of coagulopathies (including thromboelastography and platelet aggregometry).

Some of the special procedures that can be performed include dialysis for acute kidney injury, laser lithotripsy for bladder stones, laparascopic liver biopsy, collagen injections for urinary incontinence, coil placement for liver shunts, gastrointestinal endoscopy, dietary consultation and obesity management, bronchoscopy and pulmonary function testing, rhinoscopy, and interventional procedures such as stent placement for collapsing trachea or nasopharygeal stenosis.

Assessing the side - effects of treatment (ranging from a prescription diet for first - stage kidney disease to daily injections for diabetes or even to weekly dialysis sessions under general anaesthetic) is also a major factor as is the possibility that a cat can survive comfortably for a short period without a potentially distressing course treatment.

Dialysis Dialysis serves as an artificial replacement for kidneys, which are supposed to take waste out of the bloodstream.

We have been on the national trial team for breast implant litigation, for the cell phone litigation, as well as handling individual actions involving kidney - dialysis machines and mercury amalgam dental fillings, heart valve implants, uterine devices, geothermal generating equipment and electrical transformers; printing presses; and, highway graders and snowboards.

To minimize or eliminate kidney transplant issues, treatments such as diet changes and supplements, medications, dialysis, or a second transplant surgery may be recommended to improve kidney health.

Do you currently receive kidney dialysis or require oxygen use or have you received or been told that you need an organ transplant or have you been diagnosed as having a terminal illness?

Has the Proposed Insured ever been medically diagnosed as having or been treated for (including office visits, medication or surgery): leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, a blood or bleeding disorder, connective tissue disorder, Parkinson's disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis B, C or D, liver disease, kidney disease with dialysis treatment, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, lymphoma, lymph node enlargement or malignant melanoma; or received or been advised to receive an organ or tissue transplant; or in the past 5 years been medically diagnosed with or been treated for internal cancer?

The critical illnesses covered under the Standard Plan are as follows — cancer of a specified severity, stroke resulting in permanent symptoms, first heart attack of specified severity, open chest CABG, kidney failure requiring regular dialysis, Multiple Sclerosis with persisting symptoms, major organ / bone marrow transplant, permanent paralysis of limbs, surgery of aorta, primary pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Have you had or been medically advised to have an organ transplant or kidney dialysis, or have you been medically diagnosed as having congestive heart failure (CHF), Alzheimer's, dementia, mental incapacity, Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), liver failure, respiratory failure, or been diagnosed by a medical professional as having a terminal medical condition or end - stage disease that is expected to result in death in the next 12 months?

Kidney Failure Kidney Failure means chronic Irreversible failure of both kidneys to function, as a result of which regular haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis or renal transplantation is initiated.

If you have kidney disease, you need money to take care of the dialysis costs as well as make payments for your various expenses.

Now there are a small bunch of them are unemployed because of medical condition such as frequent kidney dialysis treatment, past injury, bad hearing in one ear, etc..

It stresses her ability to understand the particular needs of dialysis patients and the dialysis process through skills such as administering treatment and recognizing kidney problems.

In addition to his practice in individual and group psychotherapy he has served as a high school consultant for over 24 years, and also worked for 25 years as a consultant to several kidney dialysis clinics.