Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Uremia Therapy

Perspectives for the Next Quarter Century

  • Book
  • © 1987

Overview

Editors:
  1. Hans Jürgen Gurland

    1. Klinikum Großhadern Medizinische Klinik I Nephrologische Abteilung, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München, München 70, Germany

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Professor Nils Alwall — In Memoriam

    1. Professor Nils Alwall — In Memoriam

      • H. Klinkmann, C. M. Kjellstrand
      Pages 1-2

  3. The First 25 Years

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Seattle Hemodialysis Experience: The First 25 Years

      • B. H. Scribner, S. Ahmad, A. L. Babb, J. J. Cole
      Pages 5-27

    3. Realization of Missed Opportunities

      • W. J. Kolff
      Pages 28-50

  5. Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Evolution of Membrane Technology: Possibilities and Consequences

      • G. von Sengbusch, H. D. Lemke, J. Vienken
      Pages 111-124

    3. Clinical Relevance of Biocompatibility — The Material Cannot Be Divorced from the Device

      • H. Klinkmann, D. Falkenhagen, J. M. Courtney
      Pages 125-140

    4. Unrealized Impact of Kinetic Modeling

      • P. C. Farrell
      Pages 141-153

  6. Nephrological Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Influence of the Renal Biopsy

      • R. H. Heptinstall
      Pages 157-163

    3. Immunological Aspects of Renal Medicine

      • D. K. Peters
      Pages 164-169

    4. Impact of Artificial Organs on Modern Medicine

      • G. E. Schreiner
      Pages 170-184

  7. Contemporary Survey

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
      Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Little doubt exists that hemodialysis represents a major event in the course of modern medicine. Technologies which had previously been considered heroic or appropriate only in intensive care settings became so commonplace as to be conducted at home or in limited-care settings. The chronic anephric mammal, absent from the Darwinian evolution, was created and grew rapidly in number to a total population base of nearly one-quarter million. The physiology of this new "species" was defined, and methods of managing its pathophysiologies were developed and refined. A subspeciality of medicine and a multi-billion dollar industry were born. And the requisite dedication of resources, effort, and man­ power raised hitherto unheard questions about the limits to growth of high­ technology on medicine. At Rottach-Egern, a small village nestled in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, many (perhaps most) of the founders and pioneers of renal dialysis assembled in June of 1986 in order to reflect upon the progress and problems of the first 25 years of hemodialysis and to establish vectors and directions for the coming quarter century. Sadly missing were Drs. Nils Alwall and John Merrill who died during the years this conference was in planning. But present and active were Drs. Kolff and Scribner, whose breakthrough contributions represent the cardi­ nal landmarks of the development of contemporary End Stage Renal Disease therapy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Klinikum Großhadern Medizinische Klinik I Nephrologische Abteilung, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München, München 70, Germany

    Hans Jürgen Gurland

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Uremia Therapy

  • Book Subtitle: Perspectives for the Next Quarter Century

  • Editors: Hans Jürgen Gurland

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72720-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-72722-1Due: 10 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-72720-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 294

  • Topics: Nephrology, Allergology, Immunology

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation