Poczet Członków Honorowych Polskiego Towarzystwa Nefrologicznego. Część XXIV — Profesor Miroslav Mydlik

Abstract

This paper completes the 6-year-long series of publications on the honorary members of the Polish Society of Nephrology (PTN). The series included in the content of “Forum Nefrologiczne” has comprised alternate depictions of Polish and foreign distinctive figures enjoying this highest and respectable title awarded exclusively to outstanding individuals whose scientific work has been pushing the world of nephrology and the PTN forward. The previously-published paper presented professor Tomasz Szepietowski, the outstanding nephrologist, transplantologist and surgeon from Wrocław, Poland. This time, the 24th publication sets to shed light on the life and work of one of Czechoslovakia’s, and later Slovakia’s, most renowned nephrologists: professor Miroslav Mydlik from Košice, Slovakia. M. Mydlik was not only characterised by remarkable knowledge of medicine
but he was also known to be an extremely active researcher. Widely regarded as a friend by many of us, he visited Poland many a time. He participated in all the congresses of the International Association for the History of Nephrology held in Poland (Gdańsk, Toruń, Wieniec-Zdrój), as well as in the conference commemorating the 50th anniversary the first haemodialysis in Krakow. Miroslav Mydlik passed away in September this year in his home town of Košice.