Hybrid-artificial liver support system.
We originally developed a multi-capillary polyurethane foam packed-bed module as a hybrid-artificial liver support system (HALSS) and have applied for the permission of the clinical application to our institutional ethical committee. We summarized here the history, recent obstacles in clinical applications, and future prospects of HALSS, including our own.
Yamashita
Yo-ichi
Y
Graduate School of Medical Science and the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University Fukuoka, Japan.
Shimada
Mitsuo
M
Ijima
Hiroyuki
H
Nakazawa
Kohji
K
Funatsu
Kazumori
K
Sugimachi
Keizo
K
D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy*; D019164:Liver, Artificial