Dialysis with a device as small as iPad - Omroep Gelderland

Kidney dialysis with a device as small as iPad

Arnhem – Good news for all kidney patients in Gelderland. In the future you will not have to lie for hours. To a dialysis machine The Kidney Foundation is working on an artificial kidney that is as small as a tablet computer like the iPad.

With this device, dialysis patients whenever and wherever they want, says director Tom Oostrom of the Kidney Foundation.

“This is a breakthrough making the lives of kidney patients is literally portable ‘, reports Oostrom. This portable kidney, according to him smaller and lighter, longer washes, purifies the blood better and offers more freedom than existing dialysis equipment.

200 deaths per year

per year die 200 kidney patients on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. 1 dies in 5 dialysis patients. Oostrom: “There is a severe shortage of organ donors. The current dialysis methods approach only 10 to 15 percent of the purifying effect of a healthy kidney. ‘

‘We’ll do it myself’

The Kidney Foundation of manufacturers of dialysis equipment repeatedly insisted to work on a portable version. Oostrom: “We suspect that the industry does not want to, because there is a lot of money going on in this particular sector. So we thought, we’ll do it myself ‘

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Friday, June 14th, 2013 | 08:33 | Last updated: Friday, June 14, 2013 | 09:12

REACTIONS

Posted by: Monique – 15-06-2013 12:52

Great news! The possibility exists that, I need to make use of it. Into the future, Very glad you finally have a foundation that actually shows where the donated money is going

Posted by: Eddaoudi – 15-06-2013 11:42

That would indeed be very fantastic …. Then finally my brother (if the kidney is not yet possible) just take off on holiday to our hometown to other family members who are still alive to see and ookom the other deceased to see where you … more than 200km per time required to run to for dialysis.

at the general hospital

Posted by: Jan van Brakel – 14-06-2013 11:10

That really fne news

Posted by: Pascal Raubun – 14-06-2013 10:26

What a great invention! I am very pleased with them as a dialysis patient! With this I would like to specify as test subject for the new dialyzer

Posted by: gea – 14-06-2013 10:05

indeed very beautiful, it really is a huge burden on the patient. And even better, they better kidney cleanses. Great news. So much less damage to other organs.

Posted by: roberto – 14-06-2013 09:25

good news for those who use MUST make

Posted by: Henry – 14-06-2013 09:08

Great news! Hope there himself never used to have to make.