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...victims of kidney disease who make headlines are those whose kidney breakdown is so bad that they need the most dramatic and resourceful treatment-the use of an artificial kidney, or, most daring of all, a kidney transplant. But in all the world probably no more than 300 renal-disease patients have had transplants. In the entire U.S., patients being kept alive with an artificial kidney number hardly more than...
...That the tieing off of an irregular (extra) vein, either in the kidney or the recipient, is not likely to embarrass the circulation of blood through the kidney as numerous intra-renal by-passes are present...
...tieing off of irregular arterial vessels is likely to lead to infarction (destruction through lack of oxygenated blood) or atrophy (malfunction through an insufficient arterial blood supply of a segment of the kidney, proportional to the diameter of the artery involved, as there are no intra-renal capallary by-passes present in the organ...
...social climber, given bite by the implication that the climber's position is not so much his own fault as that of society. And some of society's offenders appear more sharply in this light than they do in the book. The gruff nature of M. de Renal, for one, is brilliantly emphasized, providing a clear motive for Julien's well meditated social ascent. Then, too, the seduction scenes are fine stuff, exhibiting some well coordinated pussyfooting from bedroom to bedroom...
...most laymen, mention of anything seriously wrong with the circulation of the blood suggests trouble in the heart or the arteries leading to the brain; rarely do they consider the kidneys. But more than half of all U.S. deaths are classed technically as due to "cardiovascular-renal" diseases, and last week the American Heart Association marked its annual fund drive with new emphasis on the renal (kidney) part of the triad. Most notable exhibits: "artificial kidneys," which are now saving lives at a growing number of U.S. medical centers...