HOUSTON – Alex López knows his Houston Dynamo career did not get off to the start anyone envisioned.

When the 21-year-old landed with the Dynamo in August 2013, head coach Dominic Kinnear felt he had a player who could help in the present and the future. But coming to Houston midseason proved to be a difficult proposition as López was never able to get his fitness level right, and consistent playing time never materialized.

It relegated the Honduran youngster to just two appearances in 11 games.

That is the past, and now he is facing his first full season with the club. If López is going to justify the young Designated Player tag, his path to playing time is clear.

“We had a talk at the end of the year; he needsHistory and development of continuous renal replacement techniques.
In 1966 two research groups, one in the United States and the other in Germany, were independently evaluating new membranes for renal replacement techniques. These filters were characterized by high filtration rates, where solutes up to a certain molecular weight were filtered by convection. At the same time the understanding of the transport mechanisms through membranes was improving. In 1976 Burton created the term "hemofiltration" for this new convective technique, and the first multicenter trial was initiated to evaluate its effectiveness for treating chronic renal failure. In 1977 Kramer in Göttingen (Germany) developed the continuous arteriovenous hemofiltration (CAVH) technique, which used a systemic arteriovenous pressure difference in an extracorporeal circuit to continuously produce an ultrafiltrate. The advantages of this effective method