Effects of arterial port design on blood flow distribution in hemodialyzers

Blood Purification

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 260-267

  Kim, Jeong Chul ^a   Kim, Ji Hyun ^b   Sung, Jaeyong ^c   Kim, Hyo Cheol ^b,d   Kang, Eungtaek ^e   Lee, Seok Hwan ^c   Kim, Jung Kyung ^f   Kim, Hee Chan ^a,b   Min, Byoung Goo ^a,b,g   Ronco, Claudio ^h  

^a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^e Chung Ang University College of Medicine

^f Kookmin University   (South Korea)

^g Jeju National University   (South Korea)

^h SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arterial port; Biocompatibility; Blood flow distribution; Dialysis efficiency; Hemodialysis; Hemodialyzer; Particle image velocimetry; Perfusion computed tomography

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ARTERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FLOW RATE; HEMODIALYSIS; ILLUMINATION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HUMANS; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 68549115520     PISSN: 02535068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000232934     Document Type: Article

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