TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
VL  - 102
Y1  - 2023/09/01/
TI  - Microplastics and nanoplastics in haemodialysis waters: Emerging threats to be in our radar
N1  - © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etap.2023.104253
PB  - Elsevier BV
SN  - 1382-6689
N2  - Microplastics are present in the environment, in drinking water, in human blood and there is evidence of nanoplastics in tap water. The objective of this work was to analyze the possibility of hemodialysis patients being contaminated by micro and nanoplastics (MNPs) during dialysis treatment. The motivation for this investigation is the fact that hemodialysis patients use about 300?600 L of drinking water per week, which may be contaminated by MNPs. A literature review, a field investigation in a London hospital and an estimation of MNPs intake in patients were carried out. The results showed potential points of risk of contamination of patients by MNPs in hemodialysis. It was also estimated that for a filtration efficiency of 99 % for MNPs, the amount of microplastics that can penetrate the kidneys of patients is 0.0021?3768 particles/week. The assessment concludes that hemodialysis patients are at high risk of MNP contamination.
ID  - discovery10178827
A1  - Passos, RS
A1  - Davenport, A
A1  - Busquets, R
A1  - Selden, C
A1  - Silva, LB
A1  - Baptista, JS
A1  - Barceló, D
A1  - Campos, LC
KW  - Filtration
KW  -  Kidney disease
KW  -  Plasticisers
KW  -  Reverse osmosis
KW  -  Risk
KW  -  Water
KW  -  Humans
KW  -  Microplastics
KW  -  Radar
KW  -  Plastics
KW  -  Drinking Water
KW  -  Renal Dialysis
JF  - Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology
ER  -