First clinical experience with the artificial kidney

WJ Kolff - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1965 - acpjournals.org
… Requests for reprints should be addressed to Willem J. Kolff, MD, Cleveland Clinic, 2020 …
The first Kolff rotating artificial kidneys awaiting the end of the war to be sent to other countries. …

Clinical use of the total artificial heart

…, EH Hammond, RK Jarvik, WJ Kolff - … England Journal of …, 1984 - Mass Medical Soc
We report here our first experience with the use of a total artificial heart in a human being. The
heart was developed at the University of Utah, and the patient was a 61-year-old man with …

Diastolic balloon pumping (with carbon dioxide) in the aorta—a mechanical assistance to the failing circulation

SD Moulopoulos, S Topaz, WJ Kolff - American heart journal, 1962 - Elsevier
A device to provide mechanical assistance to the failing circulation is described. It consists
of a catheter in a long, narrow latex tube that was inserted into the descending aorta of an …

The artificial kidney: a dialyser with a great area. 1944.

WJ Kolff, HT Berk, M ter Welle, EC van Dijk… - Journal of the …, 1997 - journals.lww.com
In the treatment of patients suffering from uremia resulting from renal insufficiency our first
attempt will be, where we cannot remove the cause of this insufficiency, to restrict the formation …

Permanent substitutes for valves and hearts

T Akutsu, WJ Kolff - ASAIO Journal, 1958 - journals.lww.com
DR, SCHREINER: Thank you very much, Dr, Kus se row. W e have to release our projector,
so we" 11 defer discussion unti 1 after the next paper which is entitled" Permanent …

Thyroid abnormalities in renal failure: A study of 53 patients on chronic hemodialysis

…, HA BLOOMER, R SIEGLER, WJ KOLFF - Annals of internal …, 1973 - acpjournals.org
Fifty-three patients with renal failure on chronic hemodialysis were screened for the
presence of goiter. Thirty-one had enlarged thyroid glands, a prevalence of goiter of 58% not …

A mitral valve prosthesis and a study of thrombosis on heart valves in dogs

…, T Akutsu, V Mirkovitch, WJ Kolff - Journal of Surgical …, 1962 - journalofsurgicalresearch.com
… (From Seidel, W., and Kolff, WJ: Test circulation without suction for artificial heart valves. J.
Appl… Akutsu, T., Mirkovitch, V., and Kolff, WJ: Teflon as experimental replacement for mitral and …

Extracorporeal assistance to the circulation and intraaortic balloon pumping

SD Moulopoulos, SR Topaz, WJ Kolff - ASAIO Journal, 1962 - journals.lww.com
EXTRACORPOREAL ASSISTANCE TO THE CIRCULATION AND INTRAAORTIC... : ASAIO
Journal EXTRACORPOREAL ASSISTANCE TO THE CIRCULATION AND INTRAAORTIC …

The sad truth about hemodialysis in diabetic nephropathy

M Ghavamian, CF Gutch, KF Kopp, WJ Kolff - Jama, 1972 - jamanetwork.com
Nine patients with renal failure resulting from diabetic nephropathy were treated by hemodialysis.
Average duration of diabetes was 21 years, and mean duration of nephropathy was 26 …

The artificial kidney.

WJ Kolff - The Artificial Kidney., 1946 - cabdirect.org
Kolff's method is based on extracorporeal dialysis of the … [ABEL, ROWNTREE & TURNER,
J. Pharmacol. 1913, v. … Kolff has reported the use of his artificial kidney in 17 cases of …