key WHAT IS THIS? Is this an award of merit to a world-renowned nephrologist? A teaching tool for medical students? Or something that has quite a different purpose? How does it tie in with a similar replica of the kidney used 3000 years ago?

Dr. Shaldon

Development of Hemodialysis: From Access to Machines
This lecture is a special treat. Dr. Stanley Shaldon, one of the pioneers of hemodialysis, inventor of the Shaldon femoral venous dialysis catheter, and one of the first nephrologists to emphasize self-care and home hemodialysis recounts how both technical and organizational problems of dialyzing patients were addressed and overcome in the 1950 - 1970 period. Included are six short video clips showing the Kolff kidney, the Alwall Kidney, Scribner shunt, monitoring devices, and some early self-care patients. (more...)


Dr. Kjellstrand

History of Dialysis: Men and Ideas
This talk was part of a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the first hemodialysis treatment given in Lund by Prof. Nils Alwall. Dr. Kjellstrand shows the notebook page recording the first patient treated, and then discusses how three streams of technological development: anticoagulation, membranes, and knowledge of uremia, converged during the early 20th century, making the process of dialysis possible. (more...)

Updated: November 28, 2007 (N28)
N28 Dr. Robert Cade, nephrologist who invented Gatorade, dies at age 80.
N26 James Haviland, Seattle dialysis pioneer, dies at age 96.
A29 Pathologists: His doctor killed Beethoven via iatrogenic lead poisoning.
A13 Foundations of calculus and Pi discovered not by Isaac Newton nor Leibnitz, but by the Kerala School in India.
M09 Research suggests that Egyptians were the true fathers of medicine.
J16 Napoleon did not die from arsenic poisoning, but from gastric cancer.
J09 Blogborygmi - a meta-analysis of physician-written blogs
J03 Scientists uncover evidence of arsenic poisoning in death of Francesco de Medici.
D29 All of Mozart's musical scores now available for free on-line.
D27 Sales of Eakins' medical painting stirs controversy in Philadelphia.
D23 Turning the pages on-line: Historical medical books
D02 More on the Greek astronomical calculator from Wikipedia
N29 Mystery of ancient Greek astronomical calculator unveiled; it was the world's first computer.
N26 HDCN: Search index updated for audiofiles, slide/audio talks, articles, and abstracts
N23 A most excellent website focusing on the origin of words in the English language.
Industry Advances Emphasis
archive
A brief history of peritoneal dialysis (Oreopoulos) CAPD 1998 Satellite
Nephrology (and the RPA) of the future (Nissenson) RPA 1998 Annual Meeting
The RPA turns 25: A retrospective (Paganini) RPA 1998 Annual Meeting
The origins of the RPA and the early years (Sadler) RPA 1998 Annual Meeting
Development of the NKF-DOQI guidelines (Eknoyan) ASN 1997 Satellite
History of Dialysis: Men and Ideas (Kjellstrand) Nordic Nephrology Days
Renal Therapy in Lund: Homage to Nils Alwall (Klinkmann) Nordic Nephrology Days

Early History of Dialysis: View from Seattle (CR Blagg) Am J Kidney Dis (03-07)
A History of Obesity, or How What Was Good Became Ugly and Then Bad (Eknoyan) Adv Chronic Kidney Dis 10-06
RENAL SOCIETY HISTORIES
RPA
ISN Video Legacy
ISN Archives in Amsterdam
HDCN Topic Pages
CRF Miscellaneous
OTHER HISTORY LINKS
Dialysis and Tx in Edinburgh
Roscoe R. Robinson History of Nephrology Collection
History of Nephrology (Karger)
NLM History of Medicine
Guide to Collections of Artificial
  Organs History (2nd ed)
History of PD (ISPD)
History of Vascular Access

Dr. Garabed Eknoyan, M.D.
Professor of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.