Artificial kidney (hemodialysis)
Riñón artificial (hemodiálisis)
- Date
- 1943–1945 · confidence high
- Place
- Kampen, Netherlands
- Credited to
- Willem Kolff (rotating drum with cellophane membrane, 1943; first patient saved, 1945); Abel, Rowntree and Turner (animal dialysis, 1913); Georg Haas (Giessen, 1924)
- People
- 👤 Georg Haas1886–1971👤 Herbert Hall Turner1861–1930👤 Leonard Rowntree1883–1959👤 Willem Johan Kolff1911–2009
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Machine that filters blood through cellophane to replace kidney function, built from washing-machine parts and cans under Nazi occupation. First functional artificial organ.
What it led to
- Nephrology and survival of kidney failure
- Artificial organs and extracorporeal circulation
- Kidney transplantation (1954)