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Dr. William H. Fissell of Vanderbilt University holds a prototype artificial kidney cartridge. Treating patients with hemodialysis is costing us a fortune and leaving us sick. To answer this need, since 1998 we have worked to create an implantable artificial kidney.
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14 Μαρ 2023 · Discoveries: How would you characterize the problems the implantable bioartificial kidney, termed iBAK, seeks to solve? Fissell: Our end goal is a bioengineered, mass-produced, universal-donor kidney to overcome the scarcity problem in kidney transplant. Full stop.
The implantable artificial kidney uses human kidney cells from organs donated for transplantation, but which were later found to be unusable due to scarring. We culture regenerated cells from these failed transplants.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. William H. Fissell IV, is making major progress on a first-of-its kind device to free kidney patients from dialysis. He is building an implantable artificial kidney with microchip filters and living kidney cells that will be powered by a patient’s own heart.
15 Φεβ 2016 · Vanderbilt University Medical Center nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. William H. Fissell IV, is making major progress on a first-of-its kind device to free kidney patients from dialysis. He is building an implantable artificial kidney with microchip filters and living kidney cells that will be powered by a patient’s own heart. We are creating […]
12 Φεβ 2016 · Vanderbilt University Medical Center nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. William H. Fissell IV, is making major progress on a first-of-its kind device to free kidney patients from dialysis. He is building an implantable artificial kidney with microchip filters and living kidney cells that will be powered by a patient’s own heart.
25 Απρ 2023 · To create a bioartificial kidney, Vanderbilt University Medical Center's William H. Fissel, M.D., honed its function down a single essential task: concentrating wastes from blood into urine.
