1. Silicone oil hemodialysis is an effective method to eliminate glutethimide from the individuals and recovery of consciousness in dogs intoxicated with glutethimide can be attained. The longterm silicone oil hemodialysis is recommended especially in eliminating lipid-soluble substance which is bound with protein.
2. Thrombocytopenia is one of the inevitable side-effects in hemodialysis and development of more blood-compatible materials is essential. We devised new screening tst in vitro in order to evaluate blood-compatibility of newly-synthetic materials.
