As a treatment plan is made, doctors want to know the cause of the
chronic kidney disease.
When the kidneys fail (called end-stage renal disease), dialysis and/or
kidney transplant is needed. Dialysis cleans the blood, removing waste products
and excess fluids because a person’s kidneys can no longer do their filtering
job. More information about kidney disease/failure
and treatment can be found at http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/kidney-failure/DS00682/DSECTION=prevention
Surgery for kidney disease/failure happens for a kidney
transplant. During the organ transplant,
a surgeon takes a healthy kidney from a donor and transplants it into the
recipient. Kidney donors can be from
living persons or deceased donors. More
information at http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/kidney-failure/DS00682/DSECTION=treatments-and-drugs
Thanks, Sharon, for more valuable information about the kidneys. I've always wondered about dialysis, how long does it take, how does it actually work?
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