Mangaluru: A multidisciplinary team at Yenepoya Medical College Hospital, led by Dr Santhosh Pai, head of the department of nephrology, performed a Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) at ...

As blood in the peritoneal capillaries comes into contact with dialysate in the peritoneal cavity, solutes in the blood diffuse into the dialysate. The osmotic gradient created by glucose in the ...

One of the main functions of the kidneys is to filter metabolic products out of the blood. If the kidneys are no longer able to do this, the blood has to be artificially purified and drained of excess ...