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Design Concepts for Wearable Artificial Kidney

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Approaches to designing wearable artificial kidney are compared and prototype devices are described.

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Translated from Meditsinskaya Tekhnika, Vol. 51, No. 6, Nov.-Dec., 2017, pp. 13-18.

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Bazaev, N.A., Grinval’d, V.M., Zhilo, N.M. et al. Design Concepts for Wearable Artificial Kidney. Biomed Eng 51, 394–400 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10527-018-9757-4

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