by Steven J. Phillips | Sep 5, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 43 Issue 6 of Artificial Organs, 23 April 2019 I graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1966. During my student years, I had little academic exposure to the developing field of artificial organs. I was not even sure what...
by Zbylut J. Twardowski | Sep 4, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 43 Issue 3 of Artificial Organs, 21 February 2019 Fourteen patients, aged 19-56 years, (with chronic renal failure caused by isolated renal diseases) were treated with hemodialysis. The frequency and duration of dialyses were adjusted to...
by Saturo Nakamoto | Sep 3, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 43 Issue 2 of Artificial Organs, 28 January 2019 The feasibility of kidney transplantation had its foundation in advances in the dialysis management of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Dr. Willem Kolff invented the first...
by Tyler Bauer & Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili | Sep 2, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 42 Issue 8 of Artificial Organs, 04 September 2018 On May the 6th, 1953 John H. Gibbon Jr., MD (Dr. Gibbon) became the first surgeon to perform an open cardiotomy during bypass under direct vision in a human, by repairing an interatrial...
by Shelley McKeller | Sep 1, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 42 Issue 5 of Artificial Organs, 16 May 2018 Could a mechanical heart be built? One that would be good enough to use clinically? How fanciful was this idea, and, if taken on, how best to go about it? In the late 1950s and 1960s, three...
by Satoru Nakamoto | Aug 30, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 42 Issue 2 of Artificial Organs, 13 February 2018 It was July 1956 and I was ready to start a research fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) in Cleveland, OH under Dr. Willem Kolff (Fig. 1). As a Japanese exchange fellow, I was...
