Low-protein disappoints; attention drawn to proteinuria and blood pressure The MDRD study was a landmark trial set up to prove the importanc...
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Renal biopsy becomes mainstream, 1954
Detail at last Ambrose Tardieu for Pierre Rayer (1840) (Wellcome Images V0009820ER) For most of the first 100 years of modern nephrology, ap...
Proteinuria: a bad thing since 400 B.C.
Indicates risk of renal failure and death Isaac Sarrabat 1600; Physician examining a urine flask. (US National Library of Medicine) Hip...
Dialysis disequilibrium
The shock of late, rapid dialysis - Glasgow, 1962 The early rotating drum dialysers had a large surface area, and because of the difficult...
The invention of diuretics
Dropsy becomes treatable in the 1960s Failure of pharmacological therapies in a woman with heart failure in 1964, right on the verge ...
Bright's disease 100y after Bright
The last decade of purely clinical observation Acute glomerulonephritis with crescent formation - Volhard and Fahr 1914 (one of the last ren...
The birth of home dialysis
The first home haemodialysis, 1964 In the early 1960s dialysis was still a very new technology. It was high-tech, life-saving and dramatic. ...
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