1. Kidney Failure Noadswood Science, 2012

2. Kidney Failure To know medical treatments for kidney failure Thursday, September 17, 2015

3. Kidney Failure The kidneys remove waste substances from the blood – should the kidneys fail there are two options: - 1.Dialysis treatment 2.Kidney transplant

4. Research Research how kidney dialysis and kidney transplants work, and the advantages and disadvantages of both…

5. Dialysis Dialysis machines filter the blood if a patient’s kidneys do not work (blood flows along a selectively permeable barrier) – this must be repeated 3x a week (at 4 hours per session until a suitable donor can be found)

6. Transplant Sometimes a kidney transplant might be possible, however there are variety of risks, specifically transplanted organs may be rejected – foreign antigens on the donor kidney are attacked by the patient’s antibodies To reduce this tissue types are matched closely and immune suppressive drugs are used