Kolff reflects on four available techniques This fascinating 1947 book of just over 100 pages gives Willem 'Pim' Kolff's own, fu...
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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...
Diets for chronic uraemia
1949-1993: Addis to Giovannetti It didn’t work for her: a 46 year old female patient who stopped her diet. Note that it was lowering urea ...
Diet for acute renal failure in the 1940s
The beginning of the multidisciplinary renal team In 1949 Thomas Addis described the anarchy that existed in recommendations for the managem...
Bombs, earthquakes and rhabdomyolysis
Seventy years ago the Battle of Britain led to recognition of a new disease and to important discoveries about acute renal failure The B...
The unsung story of early peritoneal dialysis
The first successful mode of dialysis for acute renal failure and still not replaced The beginnings of haemodialysis have been described man...
Haemodialysis was first used successfully in 1945
Willem (‘Pim’) Kolff’s remarkable achievement Kolff is famously the man who first put the developing theory of therapeutic dialysis into suc...
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