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In 1959, O'Brien, Baxter, and Teschan, with the help of medical corpsmen at Brooke Army Medical Center, demonstrated that daily hemodialysis for up to 22 days promoted survival in 13 patients with acute renal failure and kept the patients "remarkably free of uremic symptoms."¹ When Scribner et al. reported in 1960 that repetitive hemodialysis had prolonged life in two patients with agonal chronic renal failure, the intervals between dialysis treatments varied from 7 to 21 days, and the duration of each episode of dialysis was 24 to 76 hours.² Despite the expansion in the use of hemodialysis for patients with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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