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Water treatment for contemporary hemodialysis

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Chronic hemodialysis treatment became an accepted mode of therapy in the 1960s, and since then the use of inadequately purified water was recognized as being responsible for many documented patients’ injuries and deaths (Table 1) (1–6). It is estimated that many more incidences go unreported since, unless a patient exhibits an acute or subacute reaction, chronic side-effects are usually related to uremia or to the treatment itself. Water represents more than 95% of dialysate, and a dialysis patient is exposed to a mean of 300–400 L of water a week, in contrast to a normal person ingesting 14 L/week. In healthy individuals gastrointestinal mucosa represents an active membrane which regulates transport of a potential toxin into the blood stream and, once entered, contaminants have ready means of excretion.

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  1. Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine III, University of Vienna, Währinger Gurtel 18-20, A-1090, Vienna, Austria

    Walter H. Hörl

  2. Division of Nephrology, Centre for Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany

    Karl M. Koch

  3. Optimal Dialysis Research Unit, London Health Sciences Centre and The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

    Robert M. Lindsay

  4. Department of Nephrology, St. Bortolo Hospital, Viale Rodolfi, I-36100, Vicenza, Italy

    Claudio Ronco

  5. RenalTech International, LLC, 320 East 65th St, #116, New York, NY, 10021, USA

    James F. Winchester

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Cappelli, G., Inguaggiato, P. (2004). Water treatment for contemporary hemodialysis. In: Hörl, W.H., Koch, K.M., Lindsay, R.M., Ronco, C., Winchester, J.F. (eds) Replacement of Renal Function by Dialysis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2275-3_17

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