A comparison of dialysers with low-flux membranes: Significant differences in spite of many similarities

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 965-972

  Ward, R A ^a   Buscaroli, A ^b   Schmidt, B ^c   Stefoni, S ^b   Gurland, H J ^c   Klinkmann, H ^d  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2 microglobulin; Haemocompatibility; Haemodialysis; Low flux; Membrane; Solute removal

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; CELLULOSE ACETATE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3A; COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX; CREATININE; CUPROPHANE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEGRANULATION; DIALYSIS MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BETA 2-MICROGLOBULIN; CELLULOSE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CREATININE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY, ARTIFICIAL; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METHYLMETHACRYLATES; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHORUS; POLYMERS; UREA;

EID: 0031000437     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/12.5.965     Document Type: Article

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