World’s first renalcell implantation
About 10,000 Swedes suffer from kidney failure that is so advanced that activetreatment is required to avoid death from uremia. The only options available today aredialysis or renal transplantation. But now researchers at Karolinska University Hospitalare testing a new approach to postpone dialysis using renal cell implantation.Last autumn, Peter Stenvinkel, professor of nephrology, and researcher Torbjörn Lundgren, MD, from the transplantation unit at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, were first in the world to treat patients with type 2 diabetes and severe renal failure with
