First Kidney Dialysis Shunt

In March 1960 the first kidney dialysis shunt, developed by Dr. Belding H. Scribner, was planted in a kidney patient in Seattle Washington.

The process, enabling ambulatory dialysis, first developed in the 1940s by Dr. Willem J. Kolff, had prevously been restricted to operating rooms.

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