Kolff, Willem

In 1861, Thomas Graham Bell in Glasgow, Scotland, carried out the first dialysis experiments (and coined the term dialysis ), separating crystalloids and cohoids in a solution. BeU predicted that this technique could have medical application, but this was not realized until nearly 100 years later in the work of Willem Kolff and then Belding Scribner, who made HD a feasible treatment in the early 1960s. Since then, HD and more recently PD have extended the lives of many people, sometimes for up to 20 or 30 years. 

Synthetic materials are critical components in extracorporeal systems for blood purification or treatment. Willem Kolff, a Dutch physician, developed the first successful kidney dialysis unit in 1943, using cellophane to remove urea from the blood of diabetics [5]. 

Physician Willem J. Kolff is considered to be the father of the artificial organ. In 1967, he emigrated... 

Leonard Rowntree and Benjamin Turner discovered that salicylic acid could be removed from the blood of rabbits using dialysis. In 1924, German physician George Haas performed the very first dialysis procedure on a human. Dutch physician Willem Kolff treated sixteen patients with acute kidney failure between 1943 and 1944 but with limited success. The first success came in 1945 with the seventeenth patient, a sixty-seven-year-old woman in uremic coma due to acute renal feilure from gram-negative sepsis. After eleven hours of hemodialysis, the patient regained consciousness and began to produce urine. She went on to live seven more years. 

Dialysis machine (Willem Johan KoUf) Kolff designs the first artificial kidney, a machine that cleans the blood of patients in renal failure, and refuses to patent it. He will construct the artificial lung in 1955. 

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