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" Uremia Therapy : "
edited by Hans Jürgen Gurland.
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BL
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724339
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b544058
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edited by Hans Jürgen Gurland.
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Uremia Therapy : : Perspectives for the Next Quarter Century\ edited by Hans Jürgen Gurland.
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Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1987
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(xiii, 294 pages)
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3642727204
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: 9783642727207
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Professor Nils Alwall --;In memoriam --;The First 25 Years --;Seattle Hemodialysis Experience: The First 25 Years --;Realization of Missed Opportunities --;Therapies --;Will CAPD Continue for Another Decade --;Therapeutic Plasmapheresis: The Road Not Yet Taken --;Alternative Therapies: Achievement Versus Expectations --;Transplantation: Wherefore So Slight an Impact --;Living To See the Twenty-First Century with End Stage Renal Disease: One Patient's Viewpoint --;Technology --;Evolution of Membrane Technology: Possibilities and Consequences --;Clinical Relevance of Biocompatibility --;The Material Cannot Be Divorced from the Device --;Unrealized Impact of Kinetic Modeling --;Nephrological Issues --;Influence of the Renal Biopsy --;Immunological Aspects of Renal Medicine --;Impact of Artificial Organs on Modern Medicine --;Contemporary Survey --;Technical Foundations of Renal Prostheses --;Demand for and Changing Patient Population, Mortality, and Death Patterns in Chronic Dialysis --;End Stage Renal Disease in Children: What is the Future? --;Demography of Uremia and its Treatment --;Future Prospects --;Toward the Betterment of ESRD Therapy: A Technological Prolegomenon --;Predicting Twenty-First Century Uremia Therapy --;Conclusion.
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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.
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Allergy.
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Immunology.
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Medicine.
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RC915.E358 1987
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Hans Jürgen Gurland
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International Symposium, 26.-28. June 1986, Rottach-Egern, FRG
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