| Theme | Blood Purification Solution | |
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| Title | Dry chemical type dialysate for hemodialysis | |
| Publish Date | 1998/08 | |
| Author | Iwakazu Kaneko | Kidney Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University |
| [ Summary ] | Many types of commercially available hemodialyzers with a high performance membrane have higher solute efficiencies than conventional ones. However, they induce a relatively larger amount of back filtration and back diffusion in dialyzers. In order to avoid contamination due to endotoxin invasion, purified water is strongly recommended for making hemodialysis dialysate using high performance dialyzers. Recently, some new types of dialysate delivery machines have been introduced, useing a dry chemical type dialysate or a granular type dialysate. They can dissolve the dry chemicals or granules automatically and deliver them to the dialysis machines with higher degrees of purification. They may also have higher degrees of reproducability for dialysate compositions and uniformity of dialysate while saving labor for dialysis technicians. |
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