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Permeability and secondary membrane formation of a high flux polysulfone hemofilter

1986; Elsevier BV; Volume: 30; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/ki.1986.202

1523-1755

Arnold Röckel, Joachim Hertel, P. Fiegel, Saleh Abdelhamid, N. Panitz, D. Walb,

Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis

It has been assumed that the molecular weight (MW) cut-off of a newly fabricated polysulfone capillary dialyzer (F60, Fresenius, FRG) is similar to that of the human glomerulus. We recently tested the device in vivo and found this not to be so, based on the device's ability to eliminate substances of a MW of 10,000 to 60,000 daltons. One of the reasons for this discrepancy was found to be the influence of secondary membrane formation on solute permeability. Endogenous marker substances of a defined MW (beta 2-microglobulin, myoglobin, RBP, alpha 1-microglobulin, acid alpha 1-glycoprotein, alpha 1-antitrypsin, prealbumin, and albumin were measured by laser nephelometry or radioimmune assay; sieving coefficients (SC) and protein eliminations were calculated for each low MW protein.