Willem Johan Kolff
Dr. Willem Johan Kolff (born on February 14th, 1911 with Leiden, with the Netherlands) is the inventor of the Hémodialyse. It is also one of the pioneers in the development of the artificial bodies.
He studied medicine in his birthplace at the university of Leiden. Later, he will be professor resident at the university of Groningen. One of its first patients was man a 22 year old, suffering of an impaired renal function. Pr Kolff developed a programme of replacement of body by an artificial body.
Kolff was also at the origin of the first Banque of blood in Europe (in 1940). During the second world war, it was based in Kampen, where it took share to fight against the German occupation. At the same time, Kolff developed the first artificial Rein. It treated its first patient in 1943. In 1945, it manages to maintain a woman in survival thanks to the hemodialysis. In 1946, it obtains the title of PhD at the university of Groningen thanks to the hemodialysis.
Nowadays, this technique makes it possible to save million patients suffering from impaired renal function. One of the recent projections of the conventional hemodialysis is the emergence of the synthetic membranes with high diffusive flow.
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