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Dialysis in Acute Renal Failure

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In 1913 in the Transactions of the Association of American Physicians Dr. J.J. Abel and his colleagues, Doctors Rowntree and Turner (1), published a paper with the provocative title, “The removal of diffusible substances from circulating blood by means of dialysis”. The opening paragraph reads as follows: “There are numerous toxic states in which the eliminating organs of the body, more especially the kidneys, are incapable of removing from the body at an adequate rate the natural or unnatural substances whose accumulation is detrimental to life. In the hope of providing a substitute in such emergencies, which might tide over a dangerous crisis, as well as for the important information which it might be expected to provide concerning the substances normally present in the blood, and also for the light that might thus be thrown on intermediary stages of metabolism, a method has been devised by which the blood of a living animal may be submitted to dialysis outside the body and again returned to the natural circulation without exposure to air, infection by microorganisms or any alteration which would necessarily be prejudicial to life”.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    William Drukker M.D. (Formerly Reader in Dialysis Emeritus Director) (Formerly Reader in Dialysis Emeritus Director)

  2. Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, St. Lucas Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    William Drukker M.D. (Formerly Reader in Dialysis Emeritus Director) (Formerly Reader in Dialysis Emeritus Director)

  3. 75 De Lairessestreet, 1071 NV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    William Drukker M.D. (Formerly Reader in Dialysis Emeritus Director) (Formerly Reader in Dialysis Emeritus Director)

  4. Renal Research Unit, Wellcome Wing, The General Infirmary at Leeds, LS1 3EX, Leeds, UK

    Frank M. Parsons B.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed. (Consultant Physician Senior Clinical Lecturer in Renal Medicine) (Consultant Physician Senior Clinical Lecturer in Renal Medicine)

  5. University of Leeds, UK

    Frank M. Parsons B.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed. (Consultant Physician Senior Clinical Lecturer in Renal Medicine) (Consultant Physician Senior Clinical Lecturer in Renal Medicine)

  6. Health Center, University of Connecticut, 06032, Farmington, CT, USA

    John F. Maher M.D., F.A.C.P. (Professor of Medicine, Director Division of Nephrology) (Professor of Medicine, Director Division of Nephrology)

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Merrill, J.P. (1979). Dialysis in Acute Renal Failure. In: Drukker, W., Parsons, F.M., Maher, J.F. (eds) Replacement of Renal Function by Dialysis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9327-3_17

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