{"id":2054,"date":"2018-11-08T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/?page_id=2054"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:14:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T09:14:35","slug":"milestones-in-nephrology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/unit\/history\/milestones-in-nephrology\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestones in dialysis and transplantation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read a more detailed account of the early days of dialysis<\/p>\n

Table showing important milestones. Links from the tables are mostly to our own pages. Here is a selection of external resources<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Milestones in the development of modern haemodialysis<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

1861<\/td>\nThe process of dialysis was first described by Thomas Graham (Glasgow) –\u00a0More<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1913<\/td>\nArtificial kidney developed – John Abel (Baltimore) – More<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1924<\/td>\nFirst human dialysis – George Haas (Giessen) –\u00a0More<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1943<\/td>\nRotating drum dialyzer – Kolff and Berk (Kampen) – the first practical dialyser –\u00a0More<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1946<\/td>\nCoil dialyzers – George Murray (Canada), Nils Alwall (Sweden; more<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1946-7<\/td>\nFirst dialyses in Britain – Bywaters and Joekes<\/a> (Hammersmith); Darmady (Portsmouth)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1948<\/td>\nKolff-Brigham machine. As used in the Korean war<\/a> for acute renal failure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1955<\/td>\nTwin coil dialyzer – Watschinger and Kolff –\u00a0More<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1956-7<\/td>\nDialysis recommenced in the UK in Leeds (Parsons), London (Shackman) and RAF Halton (Jackson) –\u00a0Report from Edinburgh on these centres in 1958<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960<\/td>\nKiil dialyzer (Oslo) –\u00a0Picture<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960<\/td>\nScribner shunt (Seattle) –\u00a0More<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960<\/td>\nClyde Shields (d1971), Harvey Gentry (d1987) commenced haemodialysis in Seattle – the first long-term dialysis patients –\u00a0Read a contemporary account<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1961<\/td>\nDialysis using a domestic washing machine (later leading to the Maytag program in Cleveland; Nose, Japan) –\u00a0More<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1964<\/td>\nHome dialysis introduced by Shaldon (London), Scribner (Seattle), Merrill (Boston) –\u00a0More<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1965<\/td>\nHepatitis outbreaks in the UK –\u00a0More – hepatitis in Edinburgh, 1969<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1966<\/td>\nInternal AV fistula developed – Brescia, Cimino (New York) –\u00a0More<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1972<\/td>\nAluminium toxicity –\u00a0More<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1975<\/td>\nHaemofiltration introduced (Henderson, Quellhorst)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1977<\/td>\nContinuous arteriovenous haemofiltration described<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/td>\nDialysis-related amyloidosis described<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986<\/td>\nRecombinant erythropoietin introduced<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read a more detailed account of the early days of dialysis Table showing important milestones. Links from the tables are mostly to our own pages. Here is a selection of external resources Milestones in the development of modern haemodialysis 1861 The process of dialysis was first described by Thomas Graham\u2026<\/p>\n

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