70 years of dialysis at the VFN!
70 years of dialysis at the VFN
The first dialysis was performed at the General Hospital on December 10, 1955. At that time, Prague became the fifth place in Europe and the first in the Eastern Bloc to perform this groundbreaking procedure. From a treatment available only to a few selected patients, it gradually became a method that today allows more than 6,000 people with kidney failure in the Czech Republic to live on a regular dialysis program. The Department of Nephrology of the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and the General Hospital today ranks among
leading centers of modern nephrology. Thanks to advances in diagnostics, treatment of chronic kidney diseases, and close interdisciplinary cooperation across clinics, a team of experts can significantly slow the development of kidney failure, delay the onset of dialysis, and in some patients even prevent the need for dialysis altogether.
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