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Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
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Belding Hibbard Scribner
20th-century American physician and pioneer of kidney dialysis
Belding Hibbard Scribner was an American physician and a pioneer in kidney dialysis.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Shunt (medical)
Hole or passage within the human body that allows fluids to move throughout it
In medicine, a shunt is a hole or a small passage that moves, or allows movement of, fluid from one part of the body to another. The term may describe either congenital or acquired shunts; acquired shunts may be either biological or mechanical.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Hemodialysis
Medical procedure for purifying blood
Hemodialysis, also spelled haemodialysis, or simply "'dialysis'", is a process of filtering the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally. This type of dialysis achieves the extracorporeal removal of waste products such as creatinine and urea and free water from…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
March 9
Day of the year
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