Nephrology and Hypertension
Rabie E. Abdel-Halim
Lithotripsy: a historical review
Andrew Bomback
Laura Carreras-Planella, Marcella Franquesa, Ricardo Lauzurica, and Francesc E. Borràs
A brief history of kidney transplantation
Joseph deBettencourt
George Dunea
History of nephrology: beginnings
History of nephrology: the middle period
History of nephrology: modern era
Dr. Willem J. Kolff: a great man
Stanley Shaldon as I knew him
Thomas Addis and his times
Satoru Nakamoto
Belding Scribner and his arteriovenous Teflon shunt
Robert Kark
Sir William Gull, polymath and pioneer physician
Richard Bright, the father of nephrology
Pierre Rayer (1793- 1867) – first to use microscopy to study kidney disease
Harry Goldblatt and the kidney
Walter Kempner (1903–1997) and his rice diet
Sympathectomy for hypertension
Howard Fischer
Dr. Jochem Hoyer’s singular act of altruism
Jose Grünberg, Christina Verocay, Anabella Rébori, and Carmen Amaral
The Promotion of Patient Resilience in a Pediatric Dialysis Unit: A Case Report
Todd S. Ing
Oliver Murray Wrong: A Giant in Nephrology
Shanda McCutcheon
Earl Smith
Jayant Radhakrishnan
Unlikely pioneers in renal transplantation: The Little Company of Mary Sisters
Nicolas Roberto Robles
Sir George Pickering and the low salt diet
Hansjörg Rothe
How to acquire something external – Immanuel Kant on kidney-paired donation
Mårten Segelmark
Nils Alwall – one of the founding fathers of nephrology
Michael D. Shulman
A fatal and mysterious illness
Alexandru Gh. Sonoc
Vignettes
Death from uremia
Jean-Baptiste de Sénac
High blood pressure and the kidney: the forgotten contribution of William Senhouse Kirkes
The true discoverer of essential hypertension
History of nephrology vignettes
Saul Bellow visits a dialysis unit
