A history of the treatment of renal failure by dialysis / J. Stewart Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, J. Stewart (John Stewart), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemodialysis--History.

Hemodialysis.

Artificial kidney--History.

Artificial kidney.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 353 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book tells the story of how the first human organ was replaced by a machine, and how the artificial kidney entered medical and public folk-lore. But the high cost and limited availability of this form of treatment raised ethical questions.

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-02275-5

1-281-01564-4

9786611015640

1-4175-9985-5

OCLC:

1027166113