Wash the blood to be hope for kidney patients fail to survive. Along with the development of technology, the process can be replaced with equipment of the kidney. Kidney is one organ that plays an important role for the body.
Functioning kidneys filter blood to remove the remaining food and the rest of the metabolism that can not be used by the body. Not only that, an organ that is also set up a role with the body chemistry set amount of salt, water, and chemicals that circulate throughout the body. When kidneys do not work properly, toxic waste and will settle in the body.
Problems experienced kidney kidney disease can be a chronicle, in which a decline in kidney function slowly until eventually kidney failure occurs. Failure is the decline in kidney function kidney, hoarding toxic, and metabolic waste. Weight-ringannya symptoms experienced by patients depending on the damage that occurred. Failed kidney disease is a stadium high kidney chronicles. To replace the role of the kidney is not working that, then must be done such as renal replacement therapy hemodialisis or wash the blood and kidney implant.
Hemodialisis addition, patients can also make kidney transplant to replace kidney function. now hope for a new kidney failure patients revealed the results of research published in the Lancet Medical Journal. A study from the UK carried out on equipment that is capable of replacing the role of kidneys. With the tool is expected to kidney failure patients can be free from the chronicles dialysis engine. The tool uses battery power and successful use of 4-8 hours.
Long-term goal of this tool based on the effectiveness of the time, so that the patient does not depend on the engine hemodialisis. This is because hemodialisis in the hospital can spend up to 12 hours each week. “This is very potential and more practical. This tool can be in the amount of lead in more and reduce the frequency dialysis patients who have experienced kidney failure due to dependence,” said Andrew Davenport, researchers from University College, London. However, further examination is still needed in the research.
This is because the study involved only eight patients and as much age 52 years. The entire subject was hemodialisis regularly and try to use this tool. Operation of the tool is described by the researchers, is to take advantage of blood flow and speed. Because the toxin is removed from the body chemical that flows more slowly than the conventional method dialysis. However, this is not a problem for this tool can be used for long-term period and held continuously.
In this study also mentioned that two patients experienced blood clotting because they do not receive adequate medication anticoagulation. In addition, sometimes the tool does not connect well with the needle during puncture. Overall the subject says they will recommend the treatment to the patient’s kidneys fail the other. As is known, nearly 1.3 million of the world population suffering from kidney failure that requires treatment chronicles the dialysis.
Ironically, it is still a few people who receive kidney transplants because of the number of donors is very minimal. In the long term, researchers hope the tool can be small and the use of nano technology will provide a sense of comfort for the patient. Finally, this additional tool to work the withdrawal kidney function is normal. “Use of artificial kidney is the first step cleaning the blood of the tool,” said Garabed Eknoyan, researchers from Baylor College of Medicine.
