Iranian Knowledge-Based Firms Provide Equipment, Supplies for Dialysis

Iran Dialysis Consortium consists of 10 knowledge-based and technological companies that operate in the supply chain of this area.

One of the knowledge-based companies of this consortium has been able to produce dialysis filter production line, dialysis water purification device and hemodialysis machine.

The dialysis filter production line includes 36 workstations that work automatically in five modules and assemble the dialysis filter step by step. In this line, the stages of fiber assembly, caps, glue injection, cutting, quality control of the cut surface, testing and labeling are carried out completely automatically.

Another technological company of the consortium has produced medical grade PVC granules (MED PVC-P ENA 7218), medical grade PVC granules with DINCH softener (codes MEDPVC-P ENA6519), big clamp and twist clips.

Meantime, another technological company, which is active in production of medical equipment, has made all types of blood bags (single, double, triple or quadruple) along with citrate, phosphate, dextrose and adenine anticoagulant formulations.

Hemodialysis grade sodium bicarbonate production line from sodium carbonate and CO2 gas, hemodialysis grade sodium bicarbonate production line from sodium carbonate and CO2 gas, synthesis of medicinal sodium bicarbonate with hemodialysis grade are among other products of the technology company.

The company has been able to produce and commercialize all types of filters and other equipment related to dialysis.

Another knowledge-based company in the consortium has produced polymer hollow fibers. Hollow fiber membranes have a porous overall structure with a compact layer as an effective and separating layer. This membrane enjoys the capability to remove blood toxins like uric acid and creatinine within the body's limits, without removing useful blood substances like blood cells.

Earlier this year, a team of Iranian researchers at Amirkabir University of Technology designed and developed a new hemodialysis membrane to decrease time of dialysis for the patients with kidney failure, the team manager said.

“The long, expensive and unpleasant process of hemodialysis for patients with kidney failure was the reason for implementing the project,” Aryan Ekhlasi, a graduate of Amirkabir University of Technology and the project manager of ‘preparation and characterization of polyacrylonitrile-based composite nanofiber membrane to remove uremic toxins’ said while underlining the importance of the scientific project done by he and his teammates to design and develop a new hemodialysis membrane to decrease dialysis duration for the patients with kidney failure.

“The innovation which is used in the project is unique and there has not been domestic or foreign project utilizing similar innovation,” he added.

It should be mentioned that Hemodialysis is a procedure where a dialysis machine and a special filter called an artificial kidney, or a dialyzer, are used to clean the patient's blood.

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