[DOC] [TLE] Willem Kolff, Doctor Who Invented Kidney and Heart Machines, Dies ... [PAR] Feb 12, 2009 ... Please upgrade your browser. .... Dr. Willem J. Kolff, a resourceful Dutch 
physician who invented the ... man die a slow, agonizing death from temporary 
kidney failure. ... waste products that build up in the blood of such patients, he 
could ... If a man can grow a heart, Dr. Kolff always insisted, he can build... [DOC] [TLE] The history of dialysis - DaVita [PAR] In the not-so-distant past,kidney failure would be a death sentence. Thanks to the 
persistence of Dr. Willem Kolff during World War II and other ... Kolff decided to 
find a way to make a machine that would do the work of the kidneys. ... the 
university library for information on removing toxins from blood and stumbled 
across an... [DOC] [TLE] Willem Johann Kolff, the Inventor of Kidney Dialysis [PAR] Born in the Netherlands on 14th February, 1911, Willem J Kolff invented the first 
... leading to the hemodialysis machines that are now in regular use world wide. 
... die from kidney failure, and later he became interested in blood transfusion as 
well. When German bombers attacked The Hague in 1940 while he was there,... [DOC] [TLE] Gordon Murray and the artificial kidney in Canada [PAR] His first successful artificial kidney was a coil design built in 194546, with the ... 
Unfortunately, these artificial kidneys remained relatively crude prototypes, ... 
Reasons for this failure relate to the circumstances in which Murray's machines 
were ... the work of William Thalhimer in New York [3], Murray found (like Kolff) 
that the... [DOC] [TLE] May 1954: the first ever symposium on the artificial kidney [PAR] These may be of interest to Italian readers, but would be of little interest for those 
... or urologists, several of whom had built an artificial kidney of their own design. 
... was the rotating drum model designed by Willem Kolff, the blood was usually ... 
could be obtained if the dialysis fluid circulated countercurrent to the blood... [DOC] [TLE] Articles: Thank a White Male - American Thinker [PAR] Nov 27, 2014 ... If so, thank a few more white males, beginning with William Clarke in New .... the 
leading killer of the 19th century, but his attempts at finding a vaccine failed. .... 
Willem Kolff constructed a machine to cleanse the blood of patients suffering ... 
These are the recipients of pacemakers, and can thank a Canadian... [DOC] [TLE] Renal research: from a pioneering past to a positive future for kidney ... [PAR] The prevalence of kidney failure has continually increased in recent years. ... We 
know that two million of these have been identified, resulting in a 'missing million' 
of ... Dutchman Dr Willem Kolff. 1954 .... renal research; if a greater focus were 
placed on research .... of dialysis machine that would clean his blood in a better. [DOC] [TLE] Download Sample pages 2 PDF - Springer [PAR] transplants; about 67,000 people die each year from kidney failure. Almost 40 % 
of adults ... Then in the 1940s, a machine that could accomplish hemodialysis, .... 
task of filtering the blood by itselfas a matter of fact, if you remove one kidney, ... 
Willem Kolff and Robert Jarvik of the University of Utah thought they had a. [DOC] [TLE] Discussion - Scribd [PAR] When your kidneys can't perform these functions due to disease or injury. ... 
Dialysis is an artificial way of cleaning your blood. your doctor will surgically 
create a vascular .... Alwall treated his first patient in acute kidney failure on 
September 3. ... Kolff had to improvise and build the initial machine using 
sausage casings. [DOC] [TLE] Sunny Hartwig's blog - The Kidney Foundation of Canada [PAR] It could be a precarious livelihood wherein financial stakeholders in the ... who at 
the best knows the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, 
.... in Nazi-occupied Holland, Dr. Kolff persevered to build the first artificial kidney 
in .... in second-to-second blood monitoring to keep our blood clean from harmful
... [DOC] [TLE]

Question: In the 1940s Willem Kolff built a machine that could clean your blood if these failed
Answer: kidneys