Hybrid-artificial liver support system

Yo-ichi Yamashita1, Mitsuo Shimada, Hiroyuki Ijima

  • 1Graduate School of Medical Science and the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University Fukuoka, Japan.

Surgery
|February 1, 2002
PubMed

We originally developed a multi-capillary polyurethane foam packed-bed module as a hybrid-artificial liver support system (HALSS) and have applied for the permission of the clinical application to our institutional ethical committee. We summarized here the history, recent obstacles in clinical applications, and future prospects of HALSS, including our own.

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