Nearly 1.3 million people worldwide suffering from chronic kidney failure may find a way out of routine visits to hospitals for regular haemodialysis. According to Davenport, from the Center for Nephrology, Division of Medicine, Royal Free and University College Hospital Medical School, London, a battery-powered device, developed by U.S. firm Xcorporeal Inc has shown successful results continuously for periods of four to eight hours.
The concept is called Wearable artificial kidney. By all parameters, blood hem dialysis was successful. Although, device showed considerably low speed for blood flow and rate at which toxic chemicals were removed from the body. However, since the device can be worn for long, continuous periods, researchers don’t consider it a major problem.
The device was tested only on eight people and need to go through more tests to establish its worth. With this small step, researchers are aiming at convenient and implantable devices via nanotechnology.
Via: DailyMail
