by Carleton Hsia | Aug 24, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 38 Issue 3 of Artificial Organs, 10 March 2014 This memorandum is based on more than a quarter century of research and development which I have devoted to this field in collaboration with many gifted and dedicated colleagues. To begin...
by Frank Rattay | Aug 23, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 37 Issue 12 of Artificial Organs, 11 December 2013 In 1983 I started my research on biomedical engineering together with Oxford professor Hans Motz and the Austrian cochlear implant pioneers Ingeborg and Erwin Hochmair by simulating...
by Todd S. Ing | Aug 22, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 37 Issue 10 of Artificial Organs, 20 October 2013 Isolated ultrafiltration (IUF) and its kin have been useful tools in the control of overhydration in the hands of physicians for a number of decades. A plethora of investigators has...
by Byoung Goo Min | Aug 21, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 37 Issue 7 of Artificial Organs, 08 July 2013 My encounter with research concerning artificial hearts in the United States led to my interest in the development of artificial hearts. Though I planned to initiate research on artificial...
by Paul D. Doolan | Aug 20, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 37 Issue 4 of Artificial Organs, 05 April 2013 The first hemodialysis was done by Pim Kolff on March 15, 1943 in the hospital in Kampen, Holland, and I believe the first in the USA was done at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston,...
by Jaromír Vašků | Aug 19, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 37 Issue 3 of Artificial Organs, 05 March 2013 This project was initiated by close cooperation between the Department of Cardiac Surgery and the Institute of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Purkinje University (Masaryk University...