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A newborn baby clings to life,A young man seeks his future.Born without kidney function, baby Lisa's life is in the hands of Claudio Ronco, physician, scientist and inventor of CARPEDIEM, a medical device for infant dialysis. This remarkable and moving story details the experiences of a doctor's long and productive life as he fights to give a newborn baby a chance at the same. This is also the story of the revolutionary new machine that provides life support for babies, and Ronco's team of talented physicians who, through creativity, team-work and determination overcome clinical challenges that used to be considered insurmountable.
About the author
Claudio Ronco, M.D. founded, and is the current Director of, the International Renal Research Institute of Vicenza (IRRIV) - a focal learning center of International young scientists, engineers and physicians with objectives of developing technology and cures for renal disease. Born in 1951, he grew up in Asiago, Italy, the son of the town doctor. He was previously director of the Beth Israel Renal Research Laboratories in New York, and teaches at both Padua and Bologna Universities. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia and at the Fudan and Jiaotong Universities in Shanghai.
