Clinical results of daily hemofiltration.
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.
Kawanishi
Hideki
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Akane-Foundation Tsuchiya General Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan. hidekawa@enjoy.ne.jp
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
D001613:beta 2-Microglobulin; D014508:Urea