Exp erimental research of wearable artificial kidney

Clinical Evaluation of A Wearable Artificial Kidney

INTRODUCTION The University of Utah's Artificial Organs Division has been experimenting with a Wearable Artificial Kidney (W AK) since 1973. This work has been funded by an NIH-NIAMDD-75-8 grant and private funds. The advantage of this type of machine over conventional dialysis machines is mostly one of psychological effect on the patient. Patients feel tied to the machine for the great lengths...

Will nephrologists use a wearable artificial kidney?

W illem Johan Kolff, despite shortages of materials under the oppressive World War II German occupation of the Netherlands in 1942, designed and fabricated the world’s first practical artificial kidney. In his 1947 recounting of initial trials of the artificial kidney, aptly titled “New Ways of Treating Uraemia,” Kolff restricted treatments to those who had acute kidney injury, believing that “...

A Proposed Peritoneal-Based Wearable Artificial Kidney.

Ideally, an artificial kidney should simulate the normal kidney in providing continuous metabolic control, removal of toxins, and unrestricted patient freedom. Of the dialysis procedures available, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) comes the closest to this ideal but provides inadequate dialysis and fails to remove protein-bound toxins. A continuous, wearable, peritoneal-based ar...

The Vicenza wearable artificial kidney for peritoneal dialysis (ViWAK PD).

BACKGROUND The study describes the structure and operational characteristics of a new wearable system for continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) for chronic kidney disease patients. METHODS We designed a wearable system consisting of: (1) a double lumen peritoneal catheter; (2) a dialysate outflow line; (3) a miniaturized rotary pump; (4) a circuit for dialysate regeneration featuri...

Wearable Artificial Kidneys for End-Stage Kidney Disease