Uremia Therapy: Perspectives for the Next Quarter Century

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Professor Nils Alwall — In Memoriam....Pages 1-2
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Seattle Hemodialysis Experience: The First 25 Years....Pages 5-27
Realization of Missed Opportunities....Pages 28-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Will CAPD Continue for Another Decade?....Pages 53-62
Therapeutic Plasmapheresis: The Road Not Yet Taken....Pages 63-73
Alternative Therapies: Achievement Versus Expectations....Pages 74-89
Transplantation: Wherefore So Slight an Impact?....Pages 90-97
Living To See the Twenty-First Century with End Stage Renal Disease: One Patient’s Viewpoint....Pages 98-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Evolution of Membrane Technology: Possibilities and Consequences....Pages 111-124
Clinical Relevance of Biocompatibility — The Material Cannot Be Divorced from the Device....Pages 125-140
Unrealized Impact of Kinetic Modeling....Pages 141-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Influence of the Renal Biopsy....Pages 157-163
Immunological Aspects of Renal Medicine....Pages 164-169
Impact of Artificial Organs on Modern Medicine....Pages 170-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Technical Foundations of Renal Prostheses....Pages 187-217
Demand for and Changing Patient Population, Mortality, and Death Patterns in Chronic Dialysis....Pages 218-243
End Stage Renal Disease in Children: What is the Future?....Pages 244-251
Demography of Uremia and its Treatment....Pages 252-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Toward the Betterment of ESRD Therapy: A Technological Prolegomenon....Pages 269-280
Predicting Twenty-First Century Uremia Therapy....Pages 281-288
Conclusion....Pages 289-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-294