Dialysis - Principle, Advantages and Disadvantages

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Medicine - Biomedical Engineering, University Lübeck, course: Medizintechnik, language: English, abstract: Diseases of the kidney like glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis and polycystic kidneys can constrain the function of the kidney, depending on the type of disease a kidney failure can occur. When kidneys stop working or when less than 15% of the k...