Kidneys

Add your listing here

In renal dialysis, patients must be connected to machines that mechanically filter off toxins and waste materials from the body. Dialysis does not treat renal failure, but instead keeps a person alive by performing the crucial functions of the kidneys. Chronic kidney failure affects more than half a million people a year in the United States alone, and currently is only fully treated with a kidney transplant. That number has been rising between 5-7 percent per year (dated 2011)