Around the world with nephrology : an autobiography [E-Book]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Foreword; Contents; Chapter 1 Childhood; Chapter 2 Medical School and the Beginning of My Career in Krak�ow; Chapter 3 Professional Progress in Bytom; Chapter 4 Fellowship in America; Chapter 5 Return to Poland: The Lublin Years; Chapter 6 Return to Columbia: Migrating to the U.S.; Chapter 7 Cooperation with Fellows, Laboratory Visitors, Nurses and Technicians; Fellows; Laboratory Visitors; Nurses and Technicians; Chapter 8 Major Research in the 1980s; Insulin Binding to Peritoneal Dialysis Bags; Serositis in Renal Failure; Polymers as Osmotic Agents in Peritoneal Dialysis.

High Volume Exchange Peritoneal DialysisIntra-abdominal Pressure During Natural Activities in Patients with Intraperitoneal Fluid; Peritoneal Equilibration Test; Nightly Intermittent Peritoneal Dialysis; Tidal Peritoneal Dialysis; Chapter 9 Patients Who Inspired or Contributed to Progress; Alicja Balicka -- Intrapericardial Corticosteroids for Uremic Pericarditis; Maria Zieleniec-Madejska -- Constant Site (Buttonhole) Method of Needle Insertion; Mitzi Rosen -- Nightly Intermittent Peritoneal Dialysis and Using Intraperitoneal Contrast to Diagnose Leak Sites; Joe Brodhacker -- Swan Neck Catheter.

Hugh Blattner -- Daytime Ambulatory Peritoneal DialysisLucille Shirley -- Daily Dialysis on a Personal Hemodialysis System; Chapter 10 Patents in Columbia; Peritoneal Dialysis Catheters; Swan Neck catheter; Swan Neck presternal catheter; Intravenous Catheters; Multiple lumen catheter for hemodialysis; Clot resistant multiple lumen catheter; Interference; Patient tailored catheter; Home Hemodialysis Machine; Chapter 11 Major Research in the 1990s; Constant Site (Buttonhole) Method of Needle Insertion into Arteriovenous Fistula; Catheter Tunnel Morphology; Exit Site Study.

Healed exits [Pu 237, Pu 238]Care and treatment recommendations; Exit site healing [Pu 239]; Chapter 12 Teaching and Consulting; Annual Dialysis Conference; Presentations on Dialysis Related Topics all over the World -- Many Combined with Visiting Places of Interest; 1981-1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011; Chapter 13 Vacations and Travel Unrelated to Business; 1989 -- Ku�znica; 1992 -- Keystone; 1993-1994 -- Branson; 1995 -- Canada and Alaska tour and cruise.

1996 -- Trip with my brother, Les�aw, through the American Midwest1997-1999 -- Retirement and apartment in Krak�ow; 2000 -- Great Britain and Ireland; 2001 -- Jurata, Gda�nsk and Malbork; Father John Long in Krak�ow; 2002 -- Jurata, Slovakia and New York; 2003 -- Scandinavia, St. Petersburg and Estonia; 2004 -- Father Edvin Cole's Krak�ow visit and our Portugal tour; 2005 -- New England tour, Adam in Krak�ow, and our trip to Bismarck for Thanksgiving; 2006 -- Adam and Ania in Krak�ow, Zamo�s�c, Pu�awy; 2007 -- Crete, Peru tour.

2008 -- Adam and his friends in Krak�ow, touring London, our golden wedding anniversary, and a pilgrimage to Turkey.

This is the story of a boy raised up in a village in Poland during World War II, with his father deported to concentration camps throughout the war. Some years after he graduated from medical school, he serendipitously entered the then developing field of.

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