Kidney transplantation

the body, mostly bone marrow. This topic first became popular after Jodi Picoult’s novel, My Sister’s Keeper, was published in 2004. The novel is about a 10-year-old girl who sues her parents for medical freedom after she is expected to donate her kidney to her older sister, who is dying of leukemia. The subject of savior siblings is a very debatable one that many already suffering families have to face. When doing some research, I noticed that recent studies have shown that when a child is…

2. The atomic bomb was also invented by several scientists and it killed over 300,000 people in Japanese cities. Besides that a man named Willen Johan Kolff decided on creating a machine that could save many peoples life, he created the first ever kidney…

Kidney Dialysis Kidney dialysis is a treatment that helps save lives. It uses a dialysis machine to filter out the harmful waste, salt and excess fluid from your blood, which brings the blood back to normal. To filter your blood through the machine the doctor needs to make an access through your blood vessels. They would do this by minor surgery to either your arm or leg. Sometimes they make an access by joining an artery to a vein that is under your skin to make a fistula which is a bigger…

comes across patients with liver cirrhosis. My cousin is a registered nurse at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital. She works on floor six, South Medsurg Renal, which means the floor she works on specializes in renal, but she said not all of her patients have kidney issues. Their floor deals with a wide variety of complications and she provided me with several complications that are relatively common: peritonitis, liver cirrhosis, pancreatitis, gastrointestinal bleeding, and end stage renal disease. Out…

In patients with ESRD, deaths due to cardiac causes account for nearly 40 to 45 percent of all deaths. Hence cardiac risk stratification remains a challenge for the clinicians. Elevated levels of C reactive protein levels( CRP), indicative of inflammation are high in as much as 70% patients receiving dialysis. Levels of cardiac troponin are also high in ESRD patients, irrespective of the manifestation of the symptoms related to cardiac myopathies. To understand the relation between ESRD and…

The key to a successful acute dialysis treatment is the preparation. Dialysis in the hospital, there is only one staff member that knows this process and it is you. There is no one to call if anything goes wrong so being prepared for all aspect is a must. With this being said, a dialysis staff member must know their job inside and out. To insure a dialysis staff monitors their patients for the entire treatment, preparing for the unforeseen is the most important part of this job. When the…

Phenylketonuria PKU The phenylketonuria is a disease and a rare condition in which a baby is born without the ability to properly break down an amino acid. To explain, the body needs proteins for the growth and building new cells and repair membranes, body gets protein from meat, fish, milk, eggs, grains, nuts, and then converts the protein into amino acids. The body gets rid of amino acids that are needed across the urine. Babies with this disease are missing an enzyme its called…

When you hear the Phenylketonuria, what do you think? Is it that you have never heard that word be used before? It could just be that you think it can be a very harmful disorder to the human body. There are many questions that are asked about Phenylketonuria (PKU), and many of those can be answered easily. PKU is a birth defect that causes an amino acid to build up in your body. This defect/disorder can be treated in a multitude of different methods. If it is left untreated it can lead to…

had an intermittent transient heart block. Dorthea reluctantly consented and was given a permanent pacemaker to correct this problem. Three months ago, her kidney function was found to have decreased 10% to what was normal and could have possibly caused her diabetes. At first her doctors thought that she was going to need dialysis but her kidney function had improved since and dialysis would not be needed at this time. Dorthea consented to a colonoscopy which was preformed to see if she…

Dakota are linked with chronic kidney disease, or 156 of 75,000 deaths; this means that the person could have died from other reasons, but the patient did have chronic kidney disease (Midwest Kidney Network. Dialysis Deaths, 2015), (South Dakota Department of Health. At a Glance in 2014, 2015). Nationally, 0.0149% of all deaths are from some stage of chronic kidney disease, meaning that the death is as a result of this disease (Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Kidney Disease FastStats,…