Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Hemodialysis Before Kenneth Appell Invented the AV Fistula

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These photos taken in 1964-65 at the Bronx VA Hospital's dialysis unit show the Kolff artificial kidney (invented in the early 1940's by Willem Kolff in the Netherlands -- interestingly, during the Nazi occupation of that country) used with the Scribner external shunt (developed by University of Washington faculty member Belding Scribner in 1960).

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