Origin and development of dialysis and renal transplants in argentina: scientific, technicals, institutionals and socials dynamics
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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2012.v64.i2.533Keywords:
Clinical medical research, Kidney transplant, Dialysis, LanariAbstract
This paper analyzes the origin and development of experimental and clinical research about kidney transplant and dialysis in Argentina which were carried out, from 1957, at the Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas (IIM) de la Facultad de Medicina, at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). The aim is to show how these developments were possible due to the convergence of social and cognitive dynamics. The major boost given to research and clinical experience on transplants and dialysis at the IIM was because they were a) a central part of the institutional commitment carried out by Alfredo Lanari, the administrative and political authority of the IIM, b) a way to continue and take profit of the previous accumulation on local research capacities, human resources and knowledge on transplants and c) a consequence of new scientific cooperation links settled between Lanari`s researchers and the international pioneers in this experimental and clinical field, which allowed the acquisition of technical equipment and knowledge applied in the local context. The progressive stabilization of those researches not only gave scientific prestige to the IIM but produced significant changes for Acute Kidney Failure and Chronic Kidney Failure sick people, whose treatment or cure were non-existent for them until then.
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