What do you mean by artificial kidney?

Basic Clinical Laboratory Techniques 6E
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ISBN:9781133893943
Author:ESTRIDGE
Publisher:ESTRIDGE
Chapter1: The Clinical Laboratory
Section1.5: Chemical, Fire, And Electrical Safety
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What do you mean by artificial kidney?

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Introduction: Kidneys are paired vital organs located behind the abdominal cavity and it plays important in various physiological crucial functions of body including filtration of blood, excretion of metabolic nitrogenous waste products, electrolytes, salts, water, fluids.

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Kidney acts as filter it filters 100-140 litres of blood everyday in human body, to create urine. However, when kidney damages various disease of kidney failure occurred like end stage renal disease ESRD in which kidney’s are unable to filters, body fluids.

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