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‘This thesis describes a study aimed at a well defined goal: the construction of an artificial kidney and the adaptation of this apparatus to its use in the clinic’ That is the opening sentence of the introduction to the doctoral thesis 1 which KohT defended to obtain the degree of doctor of medicine at the University of Groningen on 16 January 1946. Professor R. Brinkman was his promoter.
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Kolff WJ. De kunstmatige nier (The artificial kidney). Thesis for obtaining the doctorate in medicine at the University of Groningen, 16 January 1946. Promoter was Professor R. Brinkman.
Kolff WJ, Berk H Th J, with the collaboration of Nurse M. ter Welle, Miss A. J. W. van der Leij, E. C. van Dijk and J. van Noordwijk. The artificial kidney: a dialyser with a great area. Acta Medica Scandinavica, 1944; 117: 121–134.
Kolff WJ with the cooperation of J. van Noordwijk. The Artificial Kidney. Kampen: J. H. Kok NV, 1946.
Alwall N. On the artificial Kidney. I. Apparatus for dialysis of blood in vivo. Acta Medica Scandinavica 1947; 128: 317. See also Alwall N, Norviit L. On the artificial kidney II. The effectivity of the apparatus. Acta Medica Scandinavica Suppl. 1947; 196: 250.
Murray G, Delorme E, Thomas N. Artificial kidney. Journal of the American Medical Association 1948; 137: 1596.
Drukker W. Haemodialysis: a historical review. In: Drukker W, Parsons FM, Maher JF, eds. Replacement of Renal Function by Dialysis. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. Drukker learned from Tadeus Orlowski in 1977 that this kidney finally landed in the Jageliellonian University of Cracow, but that it was not used there, for lack of means.
Snapper invited Kolff to visit a number of university hospitals in the United States. One of the results was the first successful application of the artificial kidney in the United States. On this trip Kolff also visited the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and there he met Dr Carl Walter, the head of the Fenwall Laboratories. He asked Kolff for the technical drawings of the rotating kidney and Kolff gave them and discussed a number of technical improvements. These were worked out by his co-wor ker Dr Olson. This was the origin of the ‘Kollf-Brigham kidney’, a version of which had some 40 specimens distributed later.
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van Noordwijk, J. (2001). Recognition at Home and Abroad. In: Dialysing for Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0900-3_8
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