The European artificial organ scene: present status.
This article summarizes the current evolutions regarding artificial organs in Europe. The review emanates from the activities by four of the work groups of the European Society for Artificial Organs (ESAO) and is essentially based on the reports by these work groups at the latest ESAO meeting in Warsaw, Poland (2004). The topics are: apheresis, heart support, liver support, uremic toxins.
Vanholder
Raymond
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Nephrology Section, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Gent, Belgium. raymond.vanholder@ugent.be
del Cañizo
Juan F
JF
Sauer
Igor M
IM
Stegmayr
Bernd
B
D001187:Artificial Organs; D001781:Blood Component Removal; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D009938:Organizations