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A step towards making online haemodiafiltration a gold standard

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Online haemodiafiltration is the most advanced dialysis treatment currently available, but widespread implementation of this technique has been delayed pending conclusive evidence of its benefits from randomized studies. The results of the randomized, controlled ESHOL study are now available. Will they change practice?

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  1. Department of Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation, Alessandro Manzoni Hospital, Via dell'Eremo 9/11, Lecco, 23900, Italy

    Francesco Locatelli

  2. Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Department of Medicine III, Medical University Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18–20, Vienna, A-1090, Austria

    Walter H. Hörl

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F. Locatelli has been a speaker at meetings supported by Bellco, Braun, Fresenius and Gambro–Hospal. W. H. Hörl has been a speaker at meetings supported by Braun and Fresenius.

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Locatelli, F., Hörl, W. A step towards making online haemodiafiltration a gold standard. Nat Rev Nephrol 9, 316–318 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneph.2013.75

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