SINGAPORE — Before going to bed, Madam Sarbanon Buang, 63, hooks herself up to a dialysis machine, which draws out waste that has collected in her body during the day and injects a fresh supply of a ...

Peritoneal dialysis exploits the peritoneal membrane as a semi-permeable barrier to remove waste solutes and excess fluid in patients with renal failure. Dialysate instilled into the peritoneal cavity ...

One sixth of patients receiving dialysis in the UK manage their underlying chronic kidney disease using peritoneal dialysis. Although it is generally undertaken at home, non-specialist renal nurses ...

Before a baby is born, doctors hope for a safe delivery, and parents hope for a healthy child. Unfortunately, conditions such as kidney failure can only be detected after birth and require immediate ...

In some parts of the world, peritoneal dialysis is widely used for renal replacement in acute renal failure. In resource-rich countries, it has been supplanted in recent years by hemodialysis and, ...

Over the past decade new solutions for peritoneal dialysis have been developed in an effort to reduce the bioincompatibility of conventional glucose-containing, lactate-buffered solutions, and thereby ...

First things first, what is dialysis? Dialysis is a treatment that replicates kidney functions when they fail or are unable to function properly. Most of us know that the role of kidneys is to detox ...

SINGAPORE — Before going to bed, Madam Sarbanon Buang, 63, hooks herself up to a dialysis machine, which draws out waste that has collected in her body during the day and injects a fresh supply of a ...