World’s first long-term dialysis patient was treated on an artificial kidney at the University of Washington Hospital
On Mar. 9, 1960, In Seattle the world’s first long-term dialysis patient Clyde Shields was treated on an artificial kidney at the University of Washington Hospital.
The dialysis treatment allowed him to live an additional eleven years before dying of cardiac disease.
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Source: University of Washington
Credit: Photo: Kolff Artificial Kidney. Courtesy: Museum Boerhaave.
