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Arch Hellen Med, 37(Supplement 2), 2020, 22-28 BIOGRAPHY Professor Miroslav Mydlík, MD, DSc. (1932–2018†) – A scientist K. Derzsiová |
Professor Miroslav Mydlík MD, DSc. was one of the most important pioneers in the field of nephrology in Central Europe during the second half of the 20th century. He was very active as a physician, scientist, internist and nephrologist, especially in the field of renal replacement therapy in patients suffering from acute or chronic renal failure and with acute poisonings. He was a founder of a Dialysis Centre at the First –now Fourth– Internal Clinic of the University Hospital of L. Pasteur in Košice. He carried out the first haemoperfusion through active charcoal in the former state of Czechoslovakia (1977). He was one of those clinical scientists who raised Slovak nephrology to international level.
Key words: Acute and chronic renal failure, Haemoperfusion, Miroslav Mydlík, Renal replacement therapy Slovakia.
