1978 Volume 7 Issue 6 Pages 962-965
Patients with chronic renal failure are required to spend much time for hemodialysis at the hospital, thus making rehabilitation very difficult. If the frequency of hemodialysis decreases, then there will be more possibilities for rehabilitation. In order to obtain the above results, patients need wearable or portable artificial kidneys.
We developed a simple wearable artificial kidney system and experimented this system in vitro and invivo with uremic dogs.
This system is a sorbent-based about one liter dialysate regeneration system.
These experiments obtained satisfactory results, above all the uremic dog survived 12 days using this one particular system.
