Sentences with phrase «kidney dialysis patients»

In the current study, McAllister's team implanted them into 10 kidney dialysis patients in Argentina and Poland, all of whom had suffered previous graft failures.

Blood vessels grown from a person's own cells may soon help kidney dialysis patients.

FMC had bought Sound Inpatient to build up a so - called care coordination business to expand into other types of therapy that kidney dialysis patients typically need.

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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.

A kidney specialist, Dr. Hongalgi treats patients with acute and chronic kidney disorders including those who need dialysis.

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.

«Patients on dialysis are living longer and equally positive, survival rates have steadily improved among recipients of both living and deceased donor kidney transplants.»

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

Patients with diabetes and suffering from acute kidney injury (AKI), proteinuria and uncontrolled blood sugar experience a sharp reduction in the number of years they have healthy renal function before being forced onto dialysis, according to researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

«The majority of patients with chronic kidney disease, particularly those in the more advanced stages who require dialysis, exhibited some degree of loss of their sense of smell, which correlated with reduced nutritional status,» says Teodor Paunescu, PhD, of the MGH Division of Nephrology, corresponding author of the study.

In patients with chronic kidney disease who are not on dialysis, ACEIs and ARBs slow the progression of diabetic nephropathy and reduce cardiovascular risk.

Among black kidney failure patients undergoing dialysis, women are much less likely than men to want to receive kidney transplants from living donors, despite more offers from family and friends.

Scientists report today that artificial blood vessels made using a person's own skin cells work well in patients receiving kidney dialysis.

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

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.

In 2015, 87,538 patients with end - stage renal disease died while on dialysis (16.3 percent of all dialysis patients are awaiting kidney transplants), and 18,805 kidney transplantations were performed that same year.

«Also whether sickle trait is more common in dialysis patients because it contributes to kidney disease should be explored further in future research.»

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.

A medication called ferric citrate may reduce dialysis patients» need to take multiple drugs that treat complications related to kidney disease.

The patient is on a ventilator to support his breathing and is receiving kidney dialysis.

Dialysis patients usually have to take 3 different medications to overcome these 3 complications related to kidney disease: drugs that bind phosphorus, erythropoietin - stimulating agents (ESA) that boost blood cell production, and intravenous (IV) iron.

That paper reported that two - thirds of Type 2 diabetic men with chronic kidney disease have low testosterone levels and that among patients on dialysis, a remarkable 90 percent have low testosterone.

The researchers» analysis included 22 pregnancies in the Toronto Pregnancy and Kidney Disease Clinic and Registry (2000 - 2013) with 70 pregnancies in the American Registry for Pregnancy in Dialysis Patients (1990 - 2011).

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).

Based on this review, they suggest a «probable» association between vitamin D levels and birth weight, dental caries in children, maternal vitamin D levels at term and parathyroid hormone levels in chronic kidney disease patients requiring dialysis, but «further studies and better designed trials are needed to draw further conclusions.»

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.

A new tool may help health professionals assess kidney disease patients» readiness to make important life - changing treatment decisions around their dialysis care.

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.

This response prevents patients from having a successful kidney transplant and they often remain on dialysis for years with diminished quality and length of life.

«This in effect means it may delay the need for a kidney transplant or dialysis in patients with this disease.»

PATIENTS who undergo kidney dialysis at some French clinics risk contracting hepatitis C from contaminated dialysis machines, warns a report from the Inspector General of Social Affairs.

«This letter highlights the use of a novel regimen and may give the patients with a kidney transplant and cancer hope of treating the cancer while keeping the kidney and thereby avoiding dialysis.»

In severe cases, patients must undergo dialysis or a kidney transplantation to survive.

Research has shown that kidney transplantation results in longer survival, better quality of life, and long - term cost savings compared with dialysis for patient with kidney failure.

Additionally, a kidney transplant saves a patient about $ 250,000 in dialysis treatments that would otherwise be necessary.

Autosomal dominant medullary cystic kidney disease 1 (MCKD1) is a rare hereditary renal disease that ultimately requires dialysis or kidney transplantation for patients.

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.

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.

Petrelli A, Tresoldi E, Mfarrej BG, Paganelli A, Spotti D, Caldara R, Secchi A, Battaglia M. Generation of donor - specific T regulatory type 1 (Tr1) cells from patients on dialysis for cell therapy after kidney transplantation.

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.

Researchers at Whitehead Institute have identified a key target protein of glucocorticoids, the drugs that are used to increase red blood cell production in patients with certain types of anemia, including those resulting from trauma, sepsis, malaria, kidney dialysis, and chemotherapy.

It appears to stimulate cell regeneration in the kidneys which could prove vital for patients undergoing dialysis.

I would, however, encourage you to work with a nephrologist (kidney specialist) and RDN who are experienced with managing minerals for dialysis patients.

When the kidneys are destroyed, the patients go into renal failure and require dialysis.

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.

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

I am a kidney patient on peritoneal dialysis.

A kidney dialysis company developing gamified patient education programs and an interactive patient eLearning portal;

Like the iPad was used to let a young patient know a bit about kidneys in the the pediatric kidney dialysis unit.