..., 2012; published online February 4, 2013. Assoc. Editor: Foster B. Stulen. 16 01 2012 06 11 2012 Renal disease is epidemic in the United States with approximately 8 × 10 6 people having chronic kidney disease. Renal biopsies are widely used to provide essential diagnostic...

.... , 1 , p. 9000102 . 10.1109/LMAG.2010.2081351 04 11 2011 20 02 2012 07 05 2012 07 05 2012 blood blood vessels kidney patient treatment graft Up to eight percent of patients undergoing permanent hemodialysis (HD) access placement develop steal syndrome [( 1...

... and reliable design substantially reduces the size requirements of a portable renal replacement system. 29 12 2010 27 06 2011 18 08 2011 18 08 2011 biomedical equipment blood haemodynamics kidney portable instruments pumps End stage renal disease (ESRD) is a disease...

...Kyungsoo Lee; Dong Wook Lee; Byoung Goo Min; Kyoung Kap Lee; Young Min Yun Although hemodiafiltration is presumed to be a gold standard for higher convective therapy for kidney failure patients, the repetition of forward and backward filtration during hemodialysis increases the total filtration...

...Ed Summers; Thomas Cervantes; Rachel Batzer; Julia Stark; Raymond Lewis 15 06 2011 15 06 2011 biomedical equipment cancer cooling kidney medical disorders surgery Over 58,000 patients suffer from renal cell carcinoma annually in the United States. Treatment...

... in the presence of temperature changes. (2) Simplified zero-dimensional models of the essential organs (e.g., heart, kidneys, brain, liver, etc.) describing the time-dependent consumption or production of various blood components of interest. The organ models exchange information with the CFD system model through...

...-6091 in a translational animal model of renal tumors. New Zealand White rabbits (37 for radiofrequency ablation (RFA), 20 for cryoablation) had VX-2 tumors implanted into their bilateral kidneys. The tumors were allowed to grow for 14 days to a size of ∼ 1 cm. For RFA, the rabbits were split into 3...

...H. M. Hsiao; S. Prabhu; A. Nikanorov; M. Razavi During normal breathing, the kidneys move up and down due to the diaphragm motion and the renal artery subsequently experiences bending. Whether bending of the renal artery during respiration impacts stent bending fatigue was not previously known...

...) with self-organized nanopore structure was produced. The objective of this study was to fabricate nanoporous alumina membranes and investigate the correlation between various anodization conditions and the pore characteristics in order to find its potential application in artificial kidney/hemodialysis...