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| Back in the day: "All the Blood In the Body Can Be Pumped Out and Cleaned of Disease Germs," The Day Book. (Chicago, Ill.), February 05, 1914, NOON EDITION, Image 12; Image provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Urbana, IL; digital image, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1914-02-05/ed-1/seq-12/> |
Dr. Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy (Star Trek)
Yes, we are in the stone age. I hate dialysis.
I'm not alone. There is a very active message board called "I Hate Dialysis."
Still, I appreciate living in a time and place where I can get dialysis. I also appreciate the people who continue to work on the problem of kidney failure.
Dialysis is a very recent development::
"..in 1945, a 67-year-old comatose woman regained consciousness following 11 hours of hemodialysis with the dialyzer and lived for another seven years before dying from an unrelated condition. She was the first-ever patient successfully treated with dialysis."
Before I began peritoneal dialysis in 2014 I posted about a patient surviving on peritoneal dialysis 54 days after complete kidney failure. I've survived on it for over 3 years so they have obviously made dramatic improvements on the procedure.
There is a dialysis museum in Seattle!
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| Every day we get closer to solving the kidney failure problem. Screenshot from today of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. |
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