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Monday, December 17, 2007

Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK)

Filed under: Medicine


A study in the latest Lancet from clinicians out of University College Hospital Medical School, London, is reporting very encouraging results in safety and efficacy of a portable, wearable dialysis system from LA-based Xcorporeal, Inc. Dubbed a Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK), the battery-powered device weighs less than 5 lbs, and is based on a hollow fiber dialyzer with a surface area of 0.2 sqm. The company seems to be hush-hush about the details of its technology. ABC News has a photo of the device.

To learn more about the promises of this technology, check out the reference papers published by the company: Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy for End-Stage Renal Disease (.pdf)...; Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure: The Wearable Continuous Ultrafiltration System (.pdf)...

Lancet abstract: A wearable haemodialysis device for patients with end-stage renal failure: a pilot study ...

Xcorporeal, Inc. ...

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Dear sirs,
Thanks for those encouraging results and hoping to accelerate the procedures to rescue millions of patients around the world suffering from kidney failure especially in poor countries ,
Best regards for all
Nabil Shabaka
Library Director
Egyptian in saudi Arabia


Posted by: Nabil Shabaka
on September 12, 2009 07:52 AM GMT

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