Advances in dialysis in the last decade

Abstract

In the past decade, kidney replacement therapies have been greatly revolutionized, both for chronic patients and for those with acute kidney injury. In the field of chronic hemodialysis, the development of membranes has allowed to move from low-flux hemodialysis, to high-flux hemodialysis, then to on-line hemodiafiltration, and finally to expanded hemodialysis.