Evolution of Daily Hemodialysis in Acute Renal Failure: From the Korean War to the Present

Over half a century of hemodialysis therapy has brought significant progress in technology and in our approach to its use. This brief review has three objectives: (1) to describe what dialysis was like in the beginning, 50 years ago; (2) to review the origins and interval evolution of the paradigm of daily hemodialysis; and (3) to introduce some vistas for the future.