Has a patient ever asked you about the artificial kidney? At this point many nephrologists and patients have heard about the latest advances, and it has even reached the mainstream news. A simple Google search for “artificial kidney”…
The kidney regeneration bracket is full of heavy weights as usual! However, not being in the field myself one team jumped out for me, Bioartificial Kidney. As the authors of this piece say this is truly the holy…
I reviewed a paper in our Renal Journal Club today–Tumlin et al, Efficacy and Safety of Renal Tubule Cell Therapy for Acute Renal Failure in a recent 2008 issue of JASN–which tests a novel device termed the “Renal…
The man on the left is Victor Gura, one of the authors on a 2007 Lancet paper demonstrating the efficacy of the wearable artificial kidney (WAK). The machine (which can perhaps be likened to deluxe version of Batman’s…
