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A Tribute to Dr Willem J. Kolff: Innovative Inventor, Physician, Scientist, Bioengineer, Mentor, and Significant Contributor to Modern Cardiovascular Surgical and Anesthetic Practice
Address reprint requests to Theodore H. Stanley, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, 30 North 1900 East 3C444, Salt Lake City, UT 84132.
DR WILLEM JOHAN KOLFF, shown in Fig 1, the inventor of the artificial kidney and renal dialysis, the artificial heart (AH),
transmembrane oxygenation of blood, and numerous other medical devices, techniques,
and concepts, and generally recognized as the “Father of Artificial Organs,” died
of “natural causes” at the age of 97 on February 11, 2009, in a Philadelphia care
center.
Some senior members of the specialty may remember that Dr Kolff, Pim to his friends
and associates, was part of a team of physicians, scientists, and bioengineers that
made worldwide headlines on December 2, 1982, by implanting the world's first permanent
total AH (TAH) into Seattle dentist Dr Barney Clark at the University of Utah (U of
U) Medical Center.
Others, especially younger physicians in practice and those still in training, may
have read or heard his name mentioned with regard to the invention of the intra-aortic
balloon pump (IABP) or intracardiac injection of potassium citrate to transiently
stop the beating heart during cardiac surgery.
