This is Chapter 5, pp. 97-108 + 117, in the book Clinical Dialysis - Second Edition ed. By Allen

R. Nissenson, Richard N. Fine and Dominick E. Gentile, published 1990 by Appleton & Lange

(Division of Prentice Hall), Norwalk, Connecticut, USA.

The Chapter further contains an extensive list of available hollow-fiber dialyzers on pp. 109-

116, here left out as being no more actual.

Some minor corrections have been introduced in the text.