PERITONEAL IRRIGATION

28 August 1948

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 137 (18) , 1592-1596
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1948.82890520011009

Abstract

Use of the peritoneum as a dialyzing membrane in the treatment of uremia following acute renal failure has been under careful investigation recently by Fine and his associates.¹Their goal has been to provide "a temporary substitute for the normal excretory function of the kidney," and so to prevent deterioration and death from uremia during the period necessary for the repair of acute renal damage. They reported an instance of cure in a case of uremia due to sulfathiazole toxicity.²Subsequently, Goodyear and Beard³were successful in treating a case of acute renal failure due to a transfusion reaction in a patient with a solitary kidney. Several other successful results are known to us, but have not yet appeared in the literature. To the best of our knowledge this is the first successful application of the method of peritoneal irrigation to a case of renal failure due

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