Feb. 16, 2006 - Dialysis-related patents granted this week:

• 6,998,404 - Treatment or prevention of acute renal failure
  
• 6,997,894 - Vascular access catheter having a curved tip and method
  

Dialysis-related patent applications filed this week:

• 20060036332 - Implantable human kidney replacement unit
  
• 20060032400 - Highly branched, unsubstituted or low-substituted starch products, dialysis solution and plasma expander containing the same, and the use thereof
  
• 20060036286 - Monitoring, preventing, and treating rejection of transplanted organs
  
• 20060035494 - Apparatus for attaching and detaching connectors
  
• 20060035299 - Method for treatment of indwelling catheter occlusion using fibrinolytic metalloproteinases