Sentences with phrase «offer kidney dialysis»

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The Division of Pediatric Nephrology at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston offers a range of services for kids with kidney disease, including renal biopsies, acute and chronic dialysis, 24 - hour blood pressure monitoring, hemofiltration and renal transplantation.

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.

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.

«When Daniel Offer's kidneys failed after triple heart bypass surgery in 1999, he was told he'd have to undergo dialysis, perhaps for the rest of his life...»