Kidney Dialysis Articles & Analysis: Older
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Healing rate: 25.3 mm2/day. Healing time: 33 days. Wound size: 38 × 22 × 8 mm. Age of wound when treatment started: > 1 year. Subject: 52/male. Insulin dependent diabetic, peripheral neuropathy, hypertension, renal failure on hemodialysis; history of chronic foot ...
Abstract : Intimal hyperplasia is one of the prominent failure mechanisms for arteriovenous fistulas and arteriovenous access grafts. Human tissue-engineered vascular grafts (TEVGs) were implanted as arteriovenous grafts in a novel baboon model. Ultrasound was used to monitor flow rates and vascular diameters throughout the study. Intimal hyperplasia in the outflow vein of TEVGs was assessed at ...
ABSTRACT: The incidence of wartime vascular injury has increased and is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity. While ligation remains an option, current resuscitation and damage control techniques have resulted in vascular repair being pursued in more than half of wartime injuries. Options for vascular reconstruction are currently limited to autologous vein or synthetic conduits, choices ...
Background: Synthetic expanded polytetrafluorethylene (ePTFE) grafts are routinely used for vascular repair and reconstruction but prone to sustained bacterial infections. Investigational bioengineered human acellular vessels (HAVs) have shown clinical success and may confer lower susceptibility to infection. Here we directly compared the susceptibility of ePTFE grafts and HAV to bacterial ...
Discovery In the late 19th century, researchers attempted to produce a drug with a hemostatic effect by injecting a peptone and inducing the release of an anticoagulant. The water-soluble substance isolated from the liver was heparin, but no one knew it at the time. What unfolded over the next four decades would change the trajectory of anticoagulation treatment. By 1915, the most prominent ...
SFM has been producing alginate products since the early 1980’s and still to this day alginates are an important product for our business. Alginate dressings are classed as ‘advanced wound care’, a label that up until now I have strongly disagreed with. How can a relatively simple dressing be thought of as ‘advanced’ in the current market? With newer ...
Objective: Patients with end stage renal failure who require haemodialysis suffer morbidity and mortality due to vascular access. Bioengineered human acellular vessels (HAVs) may provide a haemodialysis access option with fewer complications than other grafts. In a prospective phase II trial from 2012 to 2014 (NCT01744418), HAVs were implanted into 40 haemodialysis patients at three sites in ...
Around 37 million people in the United States and around 700 million people worldwide have chronic kidney disease which require patients to utilize dialysis centers. These dialysis clinics provide lifesaving treatments to the patients that need them. ...
The need for providing dialysis to patients in the ICU has increased overtime. Delivery of this care is challenging to health care systems (HCS) both in costs and ...
Opened in December 2018. As an important livelihood project, the Southern New Town Medical Center in the central area of the Southern New Town of Nanjing. 2.9 billion RMB has been invested to build the hospital. Large-scale comprehensive hospital, which integrates medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, rehabilitation, health care and first aid, and can accommodate 1500 beds. ...
Dialysis months for each access were calculated as the number of months from access placement to abandonment, regardless of whether the placement was ever used for dialysis. ...
Results found that drinking water was contaminated with glyphosate and heavy metals, and that these compounds were making their way to workers kidneys. Evidence shows that glyphosate bonds with heavy metals like arsenic and cadmium, forming stable compounds in water that do not break down until reaching the kidneys. CKD is a disease that develops relatively ...
Although AVF had been recommended since 1997, in 2003, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) set forth the Fistula First Breakthrough Initiative (FFBI), recommending fistula rates of 50% for incident (first placed access), and 40% for prevalent (patient had previous surgically created accesses) patients undergoing HD. The current goal for fistula use among prevalent patients is ...