by Joseph S. Coselli | Jan 27, 2022 | Pioneer Editorials
AbstractAs a native Houstonian, the notoriety surrounding Dr. Denton A Cooley’s implantation of the total artificial heart on Good Friday, April 4, 1969, was inescapable. At the time, Drs. Cooley and Michael E. DeBakey were the two most famous surgeons in Houston and...
by Stephen A. Ash | Jan 26, 2022 | Pioneer Editorials
Abstract In the course of over four decades, I have worked with an R&D team on 12 major R&D projects, all with the goal of making hemodialysis simple, safe, effective, and suitable for use in the home. Our team has worked within a University and in private...
by Steven Phillips & Kenneth Thornton | Dec 16, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 45 Issue 11 of Artificial Organs, 30 May 2021 Author Tom Clancy popularized the term magnetohydrodynamics in his 1984 techno-thriller novel, The Hunt for Red October.1-3 The Red October is a Soviet Typhoon Class stealth nuclear...
by Hikaru Matsuda | Sep 8, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 44 Issue 6 of Artificial Organs, 29 April 2020 1 OVERVIEW The first heart transplantation (HTx) in Japan was carried out in Sapporo by Dr. J. Wada 8 months after Dr. C. Barnard performed the world’s first case in Cape Town, South Africa...
by Jae Hwan Choi & Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvilli | Sep 7, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 43 Issue 10 of Artificial Organs, 27 June 2019 The invention of the heart-lung machine by Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr., through its long development cycle at Jefferson Medical College (now Thomas Jefferson University) from its conception in...
by Jan Kurkus & Janusz Ostrowski | Sep 6, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 43 Issue 8 of Artificial Organs, 07 August 2019 In 1943, Willem Kolff (1911-2009) initiated hemodialysis in patients in The Netherlands and is considered a pioneer of dialysis treatment. However, Nils Alwall (1904-1986) of Lund, Sweden,...
