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| Narrative Highlight: Carl Kjellstrand |
At part of the 50th Anniversary meeting of ASAIO we conducted preliminary exchanges with individuals working in the field of artificial organs. The text below comes from Carl Kjellstrand, MD, PhD. |
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| 2. What is your most memorable clinical case in which a mechanical device or machine was used as treatment? (answered by clinicians only) | |
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1956 -- When as a young medical student I saw a young woman wiht ARF in pregnancy, dialyzed and delivering a baby during dialysis. Both mother and child left alive and were alive some 20 years later. 1963 -- Meeting Rolin Eady in Seattle, a fellow doctor, but on dialysis. He is still alive -- 41 years later. |
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