Artificial wearble/implantable kidney is close to reality within few years

When the human body blood-filter organ Kidney fails, it is becoming difficult for the patients to maintain good health continuously and they are becoming less productive, because the dialysis is expensive and need hospitalization. The best alternative is human kidney replacement, but is difficult to get a donor. The new development in this area now is development of implantable or a wearable artificial Kidney which stays with the patient. This makes the people with kidney failure have better quality of life. The researchers are getting very close to this technology in making it available sooner, (possibly around 2020!). The artificial kidney device also called implantable Renal Assist Device (iRAD) to integrate thousands of microscopic filters and bioreactor to do the kidney's job. The nanoscale semiconductor fabrication technology is highly employed by researching in making nano filters. Nano technology researcher CEA-Leti along with its other partners are developing an artificial kidney, where the device works in real-time, continuous, multiparametric monitoring of the patient. The sensors developed by the Leti and its partners monitor the patient continuously to detect any device anomalies and a trend analysis on the health status of the patient, which would be used to improve treatment. The artificial machine kidney in a rectangular box/holder is worn on the patie...