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Place and role of new membranes in multiple organ failure : an advance or rumors

Acute renal failure is a clinical syndrome characterized by high mortality. There have been numerous attempts to improve survival in this condition, such as the use of drugs, vasoactive medication, biocompatible membranes, high flux, etc. Nevertheless, mortality remains high (1-4). Some promising preliminary results in this field have already been published by our team (5, 6). ARF is on the one side mostly a part of MOF and rare independent clinical event. As has been previously documented, the greater the number of organ systems involved in MOF the higher the mortality rate. In a randomized prospective study we tried to answer whether biocompatibility, or high flux, or both, have any effect on survival of dialysis dependent patients with multiple organ failure.

Polysulphone membranes; biocompatibility; multiple organ failure

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