Dialysis Meet May 15th 2014

• 15-May-14

Dialysis Meet – May 15th, 2014 Location: Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE Chair: Dr. Amit Kumar Consultant – Surgeon Burjeel Hospital, Abu Dhabi Dubai Healthcare City Dubai The meeting discussed the critical role of teamwork and collaboration for better patient outcomes. Also, discussed the many ways of ensuring that fistual’s once made, stayed open. Techniques discussed included the one’s currently offered by Vascular.ae at the various hospitals at which the......

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Dr. Amit on DubaiEye-Discusses kidney disease and treatment

• 13-May-14

Dr. Amit Kumar talks about kidney failure, kidney disease, dialysis and how to manage your treatment on DubaiEye. Listen to the Podcasts Below listen to ‘Kidney Matters 2, 29.04.2014’ on Audioboo // // ]]>...

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Kidney Failure and Dialysis

• 27-Apr-14

Kidney failure is rapidly becoming a problem from which diabetics are being afflicted. By far the two important risk factors are high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus. About 50% of dialysis patients are diabetics. Worldwide the number receiving renal replacement therapy (RRT) is increasing by 8% annually. Once a person is likely to be on dialysis, early intervention is critical for good results. The ideal treatment is of course transplantation. However this requires......

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