Patient Education: What is chronic kidney disease (CKD) | read this item
Chronic kidney disease refers to any process that damages your kidneys over a period of more than three months and as a consequence of that damage reduces the ability of your kidney to carry out its primary functions. This results in health related problems due to increased blood pressure and increased stress on the circulatory [...]
Patient Education: The Function of Your Kidneys | read this item
The kidneys each of which has 1.2 million functional subunits called nephrons function as a highly selective active filtration system. The purpose of which is to maintain health.
Life requires the expenditure of energy. Energy is produce by burning fuel which is derived from the foods we eat. During the process lots of waste products are [...]
News: Smell test for kidney disease. | read this item
Early detection of kidney disease has always been an issue. The most common test for kidney function may lag behind actual changes in kidney function for many days in the acute setting. In addition the number of functional subunits in the kidney exceeds that which is required to maintain a normal result on most blood [...]
News: A Daily dose of baking soda preserves kidney function. | read this item
An upcoming study in the journal of the american society of nephrology (JASN) has shown that a daily dose of baking soda typically used for such mundane tasks as baking and cleaning slows the progression of some forms of kidney disease.
The study which is yet to be published consisted of 134 patients with advanced CKD [...]
Dialysis Info: What is the best form of dialysis access. | read this item
When a patient has been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease he or she is staged according to the national kidney foundation staging system. If they are staged as 4 to 5 then preparation is made for dialysis in the medium to short term. If the patient chooses hemodialysis as the preferred method of renal replacement [...]
News: Bioengineering an artificial kidney | read this item
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We have a problem, every year the number of patients with chronic kidney disease increases while the number of patients living on hemodialysis increases as well. This leads for an ever increasing need for dialysis which ultimately may exceed our ability to provide it. Patients enter the system on one end [...]
News: Erectile dysfunction in chronic kidney disease. What to do?. | read this item
The purpose of dialysis is to improve the patients quality of life. While there are many indices of quality of life one of the most common complaints from my patients relates to adequacy of male sexual function. The exact incidence of erectile dyfunction among patients on dialysis is unknown. However studies among the subset [...]
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The DASH diet which is an eating plan that follows heart healthy guidelines to limit saturated fat and cholesterol, was found to reduce the incidence of kidney stones in an article published in the august issue of the Journal of the american society of nephrology.
The study was carried out because diet is [...]
An upcoming study in the clinical journal of the american society of nephrology is reporting the development of an artifical kidney which is wearable, you may remember that this came up a short while ago when we looked at the possible methods by which one could construct an artificial kidney. The device in question is [...]
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