The Division of Artificial Kidney started as one of the central medical service sections in 1978. The name remains at the time of the start and is sometimes called a dialysis room. Therefore, some people might have an impression that we are performing only hemodialysis for chronic renal failure. However, the development of various methods of blood purification with the progress of the recent medical engineering has made it possible to remove various etiologic substances from the blood. As a result, we became able to apply blood purification for various diseases.
Our facility has 15 beds operated by 4 doctors, 5 nurses, and 3 clinical engineers and corresponds not only to inpatients but to outpatients as well. Available blood purifications are hemodialysis (HD), hemodiafiltration (HDF), peritoneal dialysis (PD), plasma exchange (PE), double filtration plasma pheresis (DFPP), plasma adsorption (PA), lymphocytaperesis (LCAP), granulocytapheresis (GCAP), etc.