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Nephrol Dial Transplant (1999) 14: 2101-2105
© 1999 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

Special Feature

Progress in dialysis technology—clinical benefit vs increased complexity and risk. Report on the Dialysis Opinion Symposium at the ERA–EDTA Congress, 7 June 1998, Rimini

Ingrid Ledebo1, on behalf of: Claudio Ronco2, Ralph Schindler3, Roger Greenwood4, Antonio Santoro5 and Fernando Valderrábano6

1 Gambro Research, Lund, Sweden, 2 St Bartolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy, 3 Charité/Virchow Klinik, Berlin, Germany, 4 Lister Hospital, Stevenage, UK, 5 Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy, and 6 Hospital Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Ingrid Ledebo PhD, Gambro Research, Box 10101, S-220 10 Lund, Sweden.

Introduction

During the 1997 ERA–EDTA Congress and ASN meeting, held in Geneva and San Antonio respectively, a questionnaire was distributed to the participants asking their opinion on a number of issues relating to dialysis machine functions. Close to 2500 responses were collected, the majority from European nephrologists (Table 1Go).


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  		Table 1. Nationalities of the doctors responding to the Dialysis Opinion poll during the ERA–EDTA Congress and the ASN meeting in 1997
 
The results were presented during the ERA–EDTA Congress in Rimini in June 1998, in the Dialysis Opinion Symposium, chaired by E. Ritz. An invited group of experts presented their personal opinion on the different technological issues and the scientific evidence upon which it was based.

Backfiltration in dialysis

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Volume control is a feature of modern dialysis machines that allows predictable weight loss. However, in most haemodialysis procedures it also involves some backfiltration of dialysis fluid. When standard dialysis fluid is used what . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Comments by C. Ronco:
Ultrapure dialysis fluid

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On-line preparation of substitution fluid

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Continuously measured parameters

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Comments by A. Santoro:
Biofeedback

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Discussion

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