Review article: Clinical experience with Prometheus

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 132-137

  Rifai, Kinan ^a   Manns, Michael P ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial liver; Extracorporeal liver support; Liver failure; Prometheus; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMMONIA; BILE ACID; BILIRUBIN GLUCURONIDE; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR; CREATININE; CYTOKINE; TOXIN; UREA; WATER;

ALBUMIN DIALYSIS; ARTIFICIAL LIVER; BLOOD CLOTTING; CHOLESTASIS; CHOLESTATIC PRURITUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRACTION; FRACTIONATED PLASMA SEPARATION AND ADSORPTION; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER SUPPORT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SERUM ALBUMIN; SORPTION DETOXIFICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646269275     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2006.00354.x     Document Type: Review

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