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Treatment of Kidney Failure When a patient has a mild to moderate kidney failure where the serum creatinine is less than 400 µmol/L, he does not require renal replacement therapy such as dialysis or renal transplant. This is due to the fact that he still has enough residual renal function to sustain life. However he requires certain medications and dietary restriction to delay damage to the kidney. When his serum creatinine increase to 900 µmol/L, he requires dialysis or a kidney transplant. Dialysis in General Dialysis is a process which allows diffusion of solutes dissolved in blood across a semi- permeable membrane into another solution and vice versa. This means that it removes waste products through this special membrane and bicarbonate can diffuse across to the blood to neutralise acid. In this way the imbalance in the body can be corrected. Peritoneal Dialysis What is Peritoneal Dialysis? Peritoneal dialysis is a form of dialysis...

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