HEMODIAFILTRATION. THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

- Gives a complete description on online hemodiafiltration
- Provides a practical guide on how to perform the treatment
- Each chapter is completed by a point-to-point summary of essential information
This book provides a complete description of online hemodiafiltration (HDF) in five sections. Sections cover topics such as technical and essential aspects of convective techniques, equipment, the effects of HDF treatment on various biomarkers, results of recent large randomized control trials and meta-analyses on HDF treatment, as well as various practical issues. Online HDF has become an established treatment nowadays, and is supported by a vast amount of comprehensive information on a diversity of clinical and scientific aspects. This book collects and structure this information in a convenient practical guide for professionals interested in and/or working with patients with end stage kidney disease. Hemodiafiltration - A Practical Guide is of great and global relevance for health regulatory authorities and insurance companies, dialysis industries and last but not least for the millions of patients for whom dialysis therapy is a life-saving treatment.

Authors
Marcel F. Jonkman is professor and chair of the department of Dermatology at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). Since 1992 he runs the Center for Blistering Diseases at the University, which is the only expertise center for autoimmune bullous diseases, epidermolysis bullosa, and other skin fragility disorders in the Netherlands. The center has its own laboratory for research and immunodiagnosis of blistering diseases. It provides weekly clinical services for patients with blistering diseases. Hundreds of patients with an autoimmune bullous disease from all over the country (16.920.510 inhabitants, 2015) have visited the center in all these years.
The textbook is the effort of the senior staff and PhD’s in Groningen who wrote this ‘all-Groningen book’. The senior staff has gained years of experience in diagnosis and management of autoimmune bullous diseases, and reported their scientific findings in many publications. The annual Course on Blister Diseases in Groningen, that runs since the year 2000, provided much of the didactic structure used in this book. The photographers Siep Noorman and Piet Toonder signed for the excellent medical photographs that were selected from a digital image database with more than 250,000 images of dermatological disease.

Table of contents (25 chapters)
1.History and Current Status of Online Haemodiafiltration
2.Convective Techniques
3.Water Treatment and Safety Requirements
4.Dialyzers for Hemodiafiltraion
5.Baxter Online Hemodiafiltration Systems
6.Dialog
7.Online Hemodiafiltration Systems by Bellco: Flexya
8.Online Hemodiafiltration by Fresenius Medical Care
9.Nikkiso Hemodiafiltration Equipment
10.Nipro Online Hemodiafiltration System: Surdial
11.Effects of Convective Dialysis Techniques on Electrolytes and Mineral Metabolism
12.Effects of Haemodiafiltration of Anemia Control
13.Effects of Hemodiafiltration of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress
14.Effects on the Removal of Uremic Toxins
15.Effects of Hemodiafiltration on Platelets and Coagulation
16.Clinical Trials on Hemodiafiltration
17.Hemodynamic Stability and Cardiovascular Effects of Convective Therapies
18.Nutritional Aspects of On-Line Hemodiafiltration
19.Why Is High Volume Online Post-dilution Hemodiafiltration Associated with Improved Survival?
20.Hemodiafiltration in Children
21.Intensified Hemodiafiltration
22.Are There Any Disadvantages of Hemodiafiltration?
23.Practical Guide to Performing High Volume Hemodiafiltration
24.Medication and Hemodiafiltration
25.Summary and Current Status of Hemodiafiltration