A History of the treatment of renal failure by dialysis /
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Author / Creator: | Cameron, J. Stewart (John Stewart) |
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Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2002. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 353 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11283887 |
Table of Contents:
- Why a history of dialysis
- Replacement of body function by mechanical means
- Science of dialysis: 'uraemic toxins'
- Science of dialysis: osmosis, diffusion and semipermeable membranes
- Anticoagulants and extracorporeal circuits: the first haemodialysis
- Search for new dialysis membranes: the peritoneum and the beginnings of peritoneal dialysis
- First haemodialyses in humans: the introduction of heparin and cellophane
- First practical dialysis machines: Kolff, Murray and Alwall
- Peritoneal and intestinal dialysis after the second world war
- Rise of the concept of acute renal failure; the flame photometer, urologists and nephrologists
- Spread of dialysis treatment for acute renal failure
- New designs of artificial kidney
- Role of dialysis technology in the founding of nephrology
- New materials and new methods of access I: long-term haemodialysis becomes possible
- New materials and methods II: long-term peritoneal dialysis becomes possible
- Dialysis patients in the 1960s and 1970s: old and new complications
- 1970s and 1980s: new technical advances and some new problems
- Detective story: the rise and fall of aluminium poisoning-and a penalty of halfway technology: the rise and rise of dialysis amyloidosis
- Peritoneal dialysis transformed: CAPD
- Good news and bad news: treatment of renal anaemia, the rising tide of diabetics with end-stage renal failure and withdrawal from dialysis
- Growth of long-term dialysis for long-term renal failure in its fiscal and sociopolitical context
- Conclusions: dialysis today-and tomorrow.