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The Path to Wearable Ultrafiltration and Dialysis Devices

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: Wearable blood processing devices offer an attractive solution to problems inherent in clinic-based, intermittent end-stage renal disease therapies. What is involved in transitioning even a part of the current clinic-based population to ambulatory therapy has not been clearly enumerated. This paper addresses what a first-generation wearable device might accomplish, how issues of safety will need to be addressed, and what will make the device attractive to, and manageable by, the patient. Medical, technological, and economic issues are identified.

Source: Blood Purification

DOI: 10.1159/000321846

Authors: Edward F. Leonard, Stanley Cortell, James Jones

Institutions: Columbia University, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center

Language: English

Topic: Dialysis and Renal Disease Management

Subfield: Nephrology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute