Code
3E001606
Duration
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2013
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Medical and health sciences
- Urology and nephrology
- Urology and nephrology
- Urology and nephrology
Keywords
dialysis
kinetics
modelling
Project description
Patients with renal failure retain a large variety of uremic retention solutes and are currently treated with a blood purifying technique like hemodialysis. To optimise this treatment, kinetic models, calibrated with clinical data, were developed, simulating solute transport in between different virtual body compartments. These models were further used to simulate different dialysis strategies.