Experience with Long-term Intermittent Hemodialysis
Authors: EUGENE SCHUPAK
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1965)

Article1 March 1965Experience with Long-term Intermittent HemodialysisEUGENE SCHUPAK, M.D., JOHN P. MERRILL, M.D.EUGENE SCHUPAK, M.D., JOHN P. MERRILL, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-62-3-509 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe first successful application of hemodialysis to the long-term treatment of chronic renal failure was accomplished in 1960 by Scribner, Buri, Caner, Hegstrom, and Burnell (1) in Seattle. After their publication, there appeared somewhat less enthusiastic reports of the treatment of chronic renal failure by this technique (2-4). Since its inception, however, a number of technical and conceptual improvements have enhanced the over-all success (5-8), and more recently a number of centers have been able to achieve results similar to those obtained in Seattle (9-10). 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Invest. 43: 2158, 1964. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: EUGENE SCHUPAK, M.D.; JOHN P. MERRILL, M.D.Affiliations: Boston, MassachusettsFrom the Cardiorenal Section, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass.These studies were supported in part by grants IR-01-HE-08260-01 from the U. S. Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md., and DA-49-193-MD-2497 from the U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command. These studies were carried out in the Clinical Research Center of Harvard Medical School and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital supported by grant 8M01-31-04 of the National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md.Dr. Schupak is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, Mass.Requests for reprints should be addressed to John P. 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