"There are approximately 1.5 million people worldwide who require
regular hemodialysis treatments, due to the fact that their kidneys are
no longer able to clean their blood. Clinicians generally reuse the same
access point on each patient's body, for routing their bloodstream to
the dialysis machine. Unfortunately, over time this can cause
infections, blood clots or narrowing of the arteries at that access
point. This can result in the need for a blood-vessel-opening procedure,
or sometimes even in death. Now, however, a group of five biomedical
engineering graduate students from Johns Hopkins University have created
an implantable device, that could act as a safe, easy access point for
dialysis".
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