Tag: KIDNEY

Jeff Kurze is a 35-year-old man from Michigan who suffers from chronic interstitial nephritis -- a condition that led to kidney failure and forced him to go through dialysis treatments three times per day. Kurze was in dire need of a kidney transplant, but his doctors told him it would likely be three to five years before he could find a donor. With their desperation mounting, Kurze and ...

It's hard enough to find a decent roommate on Facebook, so finding someone to save your life is a near impossibility. So it was a daunting task Californian Eli Powell faced when he turned to the social networking site three years ago after he learned he had Berger's disease, which would eventually destroy his kidneys. According to CBS 13 News, the Citrus Heights native actually successfully ...

As it turns out, Facebook is good for something. According to The Wall Street Journal, Cathy Schroeder donated a kidney to a friend of a Facebook friend back in 2008 after she saw the woman's plea for help on the social networking site. It's amazing that Schroeder would give an organ to Beth Abramowitz just because she read it on Facebook, especially since the two women had never met. But Emily ...

Not like we haven't heard of at-home dialysis before, but a pair of researchers from UCLA and the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System concocted a design which would make the process even more portable. The AWAK (automated, wearable artificial kidney) would "avoid the complications patients often suffer with traditional dialysis" by being bloodless in nature; additionally, it ...