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,...
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...
