by Jean Kantrowitz | Aug 27, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 39 Issue 6 of Artificial Organs, 03 June 2015 In June 1967, at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz and his surgical team successfully used a new device—the intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP)—to treat a patient...
by Asad A. Bakir | Aug 26, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 39 Issue 2 of Artificial Organs, 12 February 2015 The most dramatic episode in my entire nephrology career of nearly four decades occurred at Cook County Hospital of Chicago (now John Stroger Hospital) between April and September 1985...
by Jose Diaz-Buxo | Aug 25, 2021 | Pioneer Editorials
Originally published in Volume 38 Issue 12 of Artificial Organs, 19 December 2014 These reminiscences are dedicated to the real pioneers in peritoneal dialysis (PD) who set the foundations for our subsequent contributions. The list of contributors is vast, but three...
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...
