Evolution of synthetic membranes for blood purification: The case of the Polyflux family

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 7, 2003, Pages

  Ronco, Claudio ^b   Crepaldi, Carlo ^b   Brendolan, Alessandra ^b   Bragantini, Luisa ^b   d'Intini, Vincent ^b   Inguaggiato, Paola ^b   Bonello, Monica ^b   Krause, Bernd ^a   Deppisch, Reinhold ^a   Goehl, Herman ^a   Scabardi, Andrea ^b  

^a Gambro Dialysatorem GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

^b SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NYLON; POLYAMIDE; POVIDONE; SULFONE;

ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIALYSATE; DIALYSIS MEMBRANE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; REVIEW; WATER PERMEABILITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMANS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NYLONS; POVIDONE; SULFONES;

EID: 10744233672     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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