Dropsy becomes treatable in the 1960s Failure of pharmacological therapies in a woman with heart failure in 1964, right on the verge ...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Surprises from the 1994 Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) study
Low-protein disappoints; attention drawn to proteinuria and blood pressure The MDRD study was a landmark trial set up to prove the importanc...
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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