Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... DaVita continues to allow patients to reuse their filters — artificial kidneys, in essence — even as many other dialysis companies have abandoned the ...

Beginning in the early 1980s, reuse became the status quo. Reusable dialyzers were cheaper, and they didn’t produce the anaphylactic-like “first-use” symptoms associated with single-use dialyzers. In ...

When the kidneys stop functioning, dialysis becomes essential. This procedure utilizes a dialyzer to filter waste from the blood through an artificial mechanism. In cases of kidney damage, dialysis ...