Artificial Replacement Kidney Inches Closer to FDA Approval Nephrodite, a medical device company developing a renal replacement system, today announced that the FDA has granted Breakthrough Device Designation to the company’s Holly implantable, continuous dialysis system The designation recognizes Holly as a novel therapy addressing end-stage kidney disease (ESKD)
Advances in Portable, Wearable, and Implantable Artificial Kidneys Current routine KRTs include transplantation, peritoneal dialysis (PD), and hemodialysis (HD) Xenotransplantation is rapidly making progress, but a trade-off is that it puts more strain on immune suppression Besides that, not all patients are medically eligible for transplantation
What’s Next for the Implantable Artificial Kidney and Beyond The latest breakthrough in the field of renal failure is pig kidney transplants, but patients face risks from the high levels of immunosuppressive medicine required for them to fight off rejection and infection
The Kidney Project | The Kidney Project The bioartificial kidney will give kidney failure patients new hope beyond the short-term solution of renal dialysis and the longer-term, but impermanent, solution of a living kidney transplant for which donor organs are limited
The Kidney Project: Building an Implantable Bioartificial Kidney Led by Shuvo Roy, PhD, at the University of California, San Francisco, The Kidney Project is developing a surgically implantable bioartificial kidney designed to provide continuous renal replacement without external pumps, power sources, or immunosuppression