title: Behavior of leucocytes and colony-forming units (CFU-C) in blood of chronic uremic patients during hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration.
abstract: In a comparison of the effects of hemodialysis and diafiltration, we found that the transient decrease of circulating granulocytes seen in hemodialysis did not occur during diafiltration. We assume that this is the consequence of effective removal of a humoral leucotoxin by hemofiltration. The CFU-C changes observed parallelled the alterations in the granulocyte count both in hemodialysis and in hemodiafiltration.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001772:Blood Cell Count; D005374:Filtration; D006098:Granulocytes; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells; D006801:Humans; D007688:Kidneys, Artificial; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D007962:Leukocytes; D008875:Middle Aged; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D014511:Uremia / Q000097:blood*