Dialysis and General Medicine
Stafford Dialysis is a 25 chair station dialysis facility located in the prestigious city of Abuja, Nigeria.
The goal of dialysis, and our goal at GKDCC, is to help alleviate the symptoms of renal failure so you are once again able to focus on developing your talents, pursuing your interests, and enjoying all the opportunities your life has to offer.
You may be asking- what is kidney disease?
Patients are sometimes confused about the difference between acute kidney failure and chronic kidney failure. Chronic kidney failure is a condition where the kidneys’ ability to filter waste from the bloodstream becomes worse over time, generally a period of years.
Acute kidney failure is the sudden loss of this important ability. Although the condition can be life threatening, it can also be reversible. Patients whose kidneys have suffered from a direct injury or an obstruction are at risk. According to American Family Physician, 5 percent of hospitalized patients develop this condition.
What is acute kidney failure?
Acute kidney failure is the sudden and dramatic loss of kidney function. This condition develops rapidly, often in just a few days.
Healthy kidneys filter and remove wastes and excess fluid from blood and turn it into urine. When one experiences acute kidney failure, the kidneys are operating at less than 10 percent of normal function. This means wastes such as creatinine and urea nitrogen build up in the bloodstream. If this waste is not removed, a person will feel extremely ill.