This volume contains papers and discussions of the Vlth Dialyse-Arzte Workshop, which was held in Bernried at Lake Starnberg near Munich the 5th and 6th of March 1980. Generous ly sponsored by Travenol, Munich, the Dialyse-Arzte meetings now have a tradition spanning 16 years. According to the con stitution of these meetings, the topics of earlier years had to cover dialysis and related fields. Thus the sponsor requested that this year also one lecture - incorporated here as part - should deal with the state of art of dialysis, thereby hopefully linking this Workshop to the previous meetings. Dialysis techniques of the 1960s, pioneered by many of attend ing speakers and panelists (see List of Contributors), have never come to a standstill. Indeed, vascular access and extra corporeal circulation have become routine for the nephrologist and have made possible the introductimn of new approaches, such as hemofiltration and hemoperfusion. Also today new membrane technologies provide us with a potentially even more effective therapeutic tool, namely plasma separation.

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Dialysebehandlung heute - eine Bestandsaufnahme
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Technologische Aspekte zur Membranplasmapherese
Myasthenia gravis: Current State of Knowledge
Die Plasmaaustausch-Behandlung bei Myasthenia gravis und anderen neuropsychiatrischen Erkrankungen
Plasmapheresis for Therapy in Patients with Metastasizing Solid Tumors
Plasma Exchange in Hyperlipidemia
Plasmapherese bei thyreotoxischer Krise
Plasmaaustausch bei Digitalis-Intoxikation
Plasmapheresis or Lymphapheresis in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Plasma Filtration Detoxification on Hepatic Patients: Its Optimal Operating Conditions
Plasma Exchange in Anti-GBM Disease
Plasmaseparation in der Behandlung von rapid progressiven Glomerulonephritiden
Plasma Exchange in Immune Complex Rapid Progressive Glomerulonephritis
Plasma Exchange in Renal Allograft Rejection
Problems of Plasma Exchange Therapy
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Topics in Therapeutic Plasma Exchange: A Classification of Published Work.