title: Clinical results of daily hemofiltration.
abstract: Various types of daily hemodialysis (HD) have been developed. However, a water treatment system is essential for HD, which markedly prevents daily home HD. Hemofiltration (HF) can be simply performed only with substitution fluid without a water treatment system. This advantage is applied to daily HF. To perform this procedure at home, a simple system is needed. A system in which a dialyzer was combined with a circuit as one cartridge with bag-type substitution fluid was developed by NxStage Inc. This system facilitates not only HF via a supply of 15 l of bag-type substitution fluid, but also automatic washing/priming of the circuit and returning which can be achieved by applying the current CAPD management system. This daily HF may contribute to routine home HD in the future.
authors.affiliation: Akane-Foundation Tsuchiya General Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan. hidekawa@enjoy.ne.jp
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawanishi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D001835:Body Weight; D006440:Hemofiltration / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors; D014508:Urea / Q000097:blood; D001613:beta 2-Microglobulin / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D001613:beta 2-Microglobulin; D014508:Urea