Koda Y, Miyazaki S, Yamazaki H, et al.
Relation of the dialyzer membrane used with the progress of
amyloidosis or with patient mortality
Japanese Soc Nephrol
J Japanese Soc Nephrol
(Nov) 37:(suppl)85 1995
The authors employed the Cox proportional hazard model to assess the impact
of the dialyzer
membrane material on the progress of amyloidosis and mortality. The end
point was
time to operation for carpal tunnel syndrome (using consistent operative
criteria)
and the time of death. A total of 819 hemodialysis patients from Shinrakuen
Hospital were studied, with follow-up ranging up to 28 years.
The risk of surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome among patients with whom
synthetic membranes (i. e., polysulfone, polyacrylonitrile and
polymethylmetacrylate) was found to be
0.50 times that for patients in whom a cuprophane membrane was employed.
Furthermore, the risk of death among patients in whom synthetic
membranes were used proved to be 0.61 times that of the
patients treated with cuprophane membranes.
(T. Shinzato)
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