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is filtered outside the body with a dialysis machine. during hemodialysis, blood is drawn off from a blood vessel and passed through a synthetic filter, called a dialyzer. in this dialyzer the blood is cleaned before being returned to the body, therefore, this dialyzer is the so called 'artificial kidney...
irreversibly, a person is said to have renal failure. chronic renal failure is the term given to the gradual loss of kidney function over a number of years, or even decades. end-stage renal disease (esrd) occurs when the kidneys permanently fail, requiring dialysis, (which removes wastes and water from the blood...
cell normally responsible for producing antibodies. plasma cells are mainly found in the bone marrow, the hollow area within the bones. because plasma cells are found in the blood, myeloma is considered a hematologic or blood cancer. the word "multiple" is often used because the malignant cells usually...
irreversibly, a person is said to have renal failure. chronic renal failure is the term given to the gradual loss of kidney function over a number of years, or even decades. end-stage renal disease (esrd) occurs when the kidneys permanently fail, requiring dialysis, (which removes wastes and water from the blood...
cell normally responsible for producing antibodies. plasma cells are mainly found in the bone marrow, the hollow area within the bones. because plasma cells are found in the blood, myeloma is considered a hematologic or blood cancer. the word "multiple" is often used because the malignant cells usually...