Nephrology & Therapeutics

Artificial kidney

The bioartificial kidney will give kidney failure patients new hope beyond the short-term determination of renal dialysis and the longer-term, but impermanent, solution of a living kidney transfer for which donor organs are limited

An artificial kidney is an expedient to remove nitrogenous waste   products from the blood through dialysis. Synthetic kidneys contain a number of tubes with a semi-permeable lining, adjourned in a tank filled with dialysing fluid.

The United States Patent Office has issued a patent to Victor Gura, MD, FASN, for a wearable artificial kidney, and the nephrologist said he wants to begin a clinical trial later this year to test the third-generation device.

For example:Gura, an associate clinical professor of medicine at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and his company, Wearable Synthetic Organs Inc., were issued patent quantity