is it possible to have artificial kidneys?
927137
Dialysis machine is an artificial kidney. It is not as small and Compaq, but it does the same job.\n\nThe other thing close to it is a bag, installed inside the body cavity, it needs emptying very 3-4 hour or so. The bag also needs re-charging. It needs a sterile place to perform this task. Takes about 15 minutes or so.
1130262
that would be dangerously unhealthy. You could experience permanent heart or kidney damage, or die.
970699
They don't buy your kidney. It's all donations. (Buying kidneys is what the black market does!) And if you're trying to find information, just talk to your doc or talk to a hospital administrator. They'll know, and if they don't, they'll know who to refer you to.
237492
there is no such thing, but there is a ureterostomy and this is the link to the picture of it at the bottom of the page.\n\n\nhttp://www.emedicine.com/med/topic3083.htm
859916
Yeah you can.\n\nit runs in families, you could just get kidney function tests assuming that you are older than 18 yrs unless you have kidney problems now as a teenager.
1114338
Yes. I can even do that. I doubt it would be Medically approved tho'.\n\nhahahahhaa.   O===};;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;>\n\n.
610832
It is possible. Ask your doctor.
539792
Try here:\n\nhttp://www.kidneytransplant.org/patientguide/index.html
33439
you will have kidney problems
816915
People live just fine on one kidney. In fact, a neighbor of mine gave one of his away and he is OK. We only need one kidney and we can live a totally normal life.\n\nI can't imagine how frightened you are right now. All I can do is reassure you that people live perfectly normal lives with one kdiney. \n\nCheck out the kindey foundation site below.
188175
it is possible but it would take an extreme amount of pressure and you might not be able to manually pump it full enough, you would have to use an electric pump and make sure the air needle can't pop out.
823909
Technically, it would be possible, but likely very delicate.  Experiments are underway to assists people with disabilities, and look promising, but the control is done with very coarse setting like "thinking about talking" and "thinking about moving the foot", so that very distinct area of the brain are involved, so that they are easily distinguished in operation. To go beyond that, and be able to control very delicate instrument with high precision like it was one own limb would probably require going in and tapping the nerves directly; picking up the signal though the thickness of the skull and homing to an area that is measured in millimeter -- let alone singling out one neuron -- is asking too much.
236485
Only one way I know of- Kidney transplant, but then you have to worry about organ rejection.
150001
i am not sure of the laws pretaining to transplants in India but if its anything like in the states, her Doctor would have to put her name on a list to recieve  a Kidney from either a donor who has passed away and willed there organs away, or a live donor, because you can live with 1 kidney, well anyway they have a set of parameters for matching organs to reciepients, the closer the match the better, so my advise would be to contact her doctor or a transplant hospital to get the process started as soon as possible, as dialysis does not work well for some people.
597916
Yes, you can. My mother smoked most of her life and died of heart disease. They could use her skin and eyes and some bone, and I donated them. She was older, so most of the other organs weren't good for donation.
224688
People might have different views about cloning. But  if  organs are cloned for people who cant find any donors ,then its right and should be encouraged.But this technology should be handled with extra care, so that it may not get misused
1082307
Check it out... I can answer seriously...\n\nI gave my kidney away to a friend 8 or 9 years ago. Honest and no joke. Our tissue matches up like brothers and he has not had an issue with rejection. My kidney dr. is all pissed at me though for not drinking enough water through the day... kidney stones and all...\n\n I have often wondered about the tissue though. What is the DNA of the grafting and connecting tissue from my old kidney to his body anyway?\n\n I won't even go into the spiritual side of it... Yes the Bearded One has a spiritual side...\n\n I'm watching this question though. Nice to know I'm not the only one who has thought about this...\n\nIf you ever want to give up a kidney however, Swedish Med on the hill in Seattle is THE BEST!!!\n\n The actually made me a steak, Rare! AT 4:AM!!!\n\nI also proposed to a nurse while in the morph drip... that was fun.\nGetting the cath out was a pain...\n\n But I'd do it again.