| Theme | Multiple Organ Failure and Blood Purification Therapy | |
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| Title | Blood purification on multiple organ failure | |
| Publish Date | 1999/09 | |
| Author | Nobuo Kaku | Department of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine |
| [ Summary ] | Previously, the patients' lives could not be saved when multiple organ failures developed. However, recent advances in blood purification therapy have resulted in increased survivalrates. However, saving lives becomes more difficult with an increased number of failing organs. Blood purification should be performed rapidly while the number of failing organs is low. Concerning blood purification for failing organs, if several organs fail, blood purification should be performed on organs which simple functions (for example, the kidney) to compensate for the functions of other failing organs and achieve spontaneous improvement in organs with complex functions. Blood purification must be started when organ function fails. |
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