Open AccessThe Patient as a Limit to Dialysis Technology
Author(s) -
Sunny Eloot,
Raymond Vanholder,
Wim Van Biesen,
Norbert Lameire
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical journal of the american society of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1555-905X
pISSN - 1555-9041
DOI - 10.2215/cjn.07320711
Subject(s) - kt/v , dialysis , medicine , hemodialysis , dialysis adequacy , urea , chromatography , urology , thermodynamics , biomedical engineering , surgery , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry
Ward et al. show in this issue of CJASN that Kt/V urea does not improve by increasing the dialysate flow rate in dialyzers in which dialysate flow distribution has been optimized by changes in design ([1][1]). Such improved dialyzer designs were developed during the last decade, based on the
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