title: Hybrid-artificial liver support system.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Medical Science and the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Yo-ichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: Mitsuo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shimada
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ijima
authors.forename: Kohji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakazawa
authors.forename: Kazumori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Funatsu
authors.forename: Keizo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugimachi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy*; D019164:Liver, Artificial