title: Hemodialysis--from early days to tomorrow.
abstract: The Nestor of chronic dialysis, Belding Scribner, was well aware of most problems which plague hemodialysis to this day, but the major problem we are confronted with today has emerged much later, i.e. excessive cardiovascular mortality. Apart from modulating duration and frequency of dialysis, there is currently no logistic or technological solution immediately apparent to solve this problem. Elucidating and correcting the cardiovascular risk is the most important challenge to clinical nephrology today.
authors.affiliation: Department Internal Medicine, Ruperto-Carola-University, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Eberhard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ritz
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dikow
authors.forename: Vedat
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Schwenger
authors.forename: Marie-Luise
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States