Has Dr. Humes created a hemodialysis substitute for patients with chronic renal failure?
He is working on such a treatment, but what was reported recently in the press was success with the first component of it. The current achievement is a device that is promising as a new treatment for acute renal failure (not chronic renal failure) – a grave condition treated in hospital intensive care units. However, this is also the first step in a larger project that is aimed at developing an implantable bioartificial kidney for treating chronic renal failure.
