Use of regional citrate anticoagulation with medium cut-off membrane: pilot report.

ABSTRACT: Regional citrate anticoagulation during hemodialysis provides an immediate and complete anticoagulant effect, which is limited to the extracorporeal circuit. Citrate has become the standard anticoagulant in acute renal replacement therapy and is widely used in various intermittent hemodialysis modalities, especially for patients with contraindications for heparin. With the increased adoption of medium cut-off membranes, experience with regional citrate anticoagulation is needed. To our knowledge, this is the first report to assess the feasibility of regional citrate anticoagulation in expanded hemodialysis. We prospectively analyzed 5 expanded hemodialysis procedures in 5 patients in which a medium cut-off membrane (Theranova®) was used. We followed our standard citrate protocol developed

SUBMITTER: Vrecko MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9615209 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature