American health insurance is allowed to refuse to pay for any treatment considered experimental so the correct question is "will anyone be able to afford it" and the answer is "not the masses not anytime this decade".
Can an artificial kidney finally free patients from dialysis?
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#12As someone on dialysis, this would be amazing to see. I wonder if the same immunoresponse issues would happen with this like with a transplant. The holy grail of transplant medicine for years has been acquired immunity, where you convince the immunesystem not to attack the transplant. Still hoping we see progress there, but this looks like a viable alternative to a donor transplant.
Would teaching the immune system to "forget" cover this situation (along with other autoimmune diseases) too?
I think Treg therapies is something that could potentially be used in both autoimmunity and transplantation. But the again, the idea isn’t new and has been around for 20 or more years. As they say, “lost in translation”.
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#13This probably isn't a viable solution for my father who has been on dialysis for 2 years and is in ESRD. I am a candidate for a kidney transplant for him (I went through the whole process), but he has other issues that have been preventing him from having another surgery. I'm pretty scared to do the procedure, too.
But really glad to see progress being made here. Hopefully, also, the world works toward improving diet and starts eliminating metabolic diseases like Type-2 Diabetes and Heart Disease.
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#14No idea why i can't access this website from Ukraine.
https://archive.ph/ba9Cw
Presumably it's just an overbroad filter responding to some random attack in the past. Either way: best not to pick it apart on this thread, which isn't about web filtering, but rather artificial kidneys.
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#15hope as much money & marketing is poured in cure, is also poured into prevention as it is better to prevent than to cure.
I believe that many types of kidney diseases are linked to metabolic syndrome. Hope media and doctors highlight this to all and sundry that eating less, moving more, keeping weight and blood sugar in control can stop disease progression.
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#16Will this be abused whereby peoples are coerced into trading their kidney for an artificial one for a price?
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#17Will this be abused whereby peoples are coerced into trading their kidney for an artificial one for a price?
I saw that movie too. I think is based on a book though.
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#18No idea why i can't access this website from Ukraine.
https://archive.ph/ba9Cw Presumably it's just an overbroad filter responding to some random attack in the past. Either way: best not to pick it apart on this thread, which isn't about web filtering, but rather artificial kidneys.
Oddly, I'm getting a server not found for archive.ph.
Re: Can an artificial kidney finally free patients from dialysis?
#19As someone on dialysis, this would be amazing to see. I wonder if the same immunoresponse issues would happen with this like with a transplant. The holy grail of transplant medicine for years has been acquired immunity, where you convince the immunesystem not to attack the transplant. Still hoping we see progress there, but this looks like a viable alternative to a donor transplant.
There is a lot of research going into making kidneys without the markers that cause rejection. They hope to make pig kidneys compatible with human transplantation this way.
They have one in a brain dead patient right now, been over a month with no issues.
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#20This probably isn't a viable solution for my father who has been on dialysis for 2 years and is in ESRD. I am a candidate for a kidney transplant for him (I went through the whole process), but he has other issues that have been preventing him from having another surgery. I'm pretty scared to do the procedure, too. But really glad to see progress being made here. Hopefully, also, the world works toward improving diet…
As a living kidney donor, I can tell you that it's not all that scary. It's much scarier to be ESRD and suffering the hellish purgatory of dialysis.
The operation is quick and recovery isn't too bad. As long as you have support at home from friends and family it's not terrible.
What struck me, though, was how weak it made me. Walking for the first time in a week was very slow, very sweaty, and put me into a state of extreme exhaustion.