Hollow Fiber Artificial Kidney
date: label: Date made
content: About 1964
notes: label: Description
content: This is the first Hollow Fiber Artificial Kidney (HFAK) for the diffusion of molecules from blood. It was developed by Richard D. Stewart (b. 1934), M.D., Ph.D., a professor at the Marquette University School of Medicine; in collaboration with Joseph C. Cerny, M.D., of the University of Michigan and H. I. Mahon of the Dow Chemical Company. It was developed on a contract with the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases.
label: Description
content: Ref: R. D. Stewart, “Artificial Body Organ Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 3,373,876 (March 19, 1968), assigned to the Dow Chemical Co..
label: Description
content: Richard D. Stewart, Joseph C. Cerny, Ben J. Lipps, and Ben J. Holmes, “Hemodialysis with the Capillary Kidney,” University of Michigan Medical Center Journal 34 (1968): 80-83.
label: Description
content: “Compact and Efficient Artificial Kidney Simulates Network of Human Capillaries,” The NIH Record (June 11, 1968): 5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Ann Arbor
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard D. Stewart
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0236.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0236
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0236.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial kidney
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 10 in x 4 5/8 in; 18.415 cm x 25.4 cm x 11.7475 cm