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Research on preventive measures for kidney failure underway at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is almost $50,000 richer today, thanks to a gift from the Lurav Caverns Wishing Well.
The money will finance a two-year research project directed by Dr. Nuzhet O. Atuk, professor of internal medicine in the Renval Division at U. Va. The research will focus on improving techniques to prevent acute kidney failure and to prolong kidney preservation before transplantation.
Dr. Atuk and his colleagues hope to gain direct evidence that a new class of drugs, calcium entry blockers, may be used to do this. If successful, the technique may eliminate the need for costly dialysis.
For sufferers of renal disease, successful kidney transplants are considered superior to treatment by dialysis machines, which are extremely costly and often inconvenient.
The gift of $48,436, representing a four and onehalf year harvest from the cave pool, raises to $208,476 the total of charitable contributions dispensed by the famous underground wishing well at Luray since 1954. About two million coins, weighing 14,500 pounds, comprised the largest treasure.
The gift for U.Va. kidney research is the largest in Luray Caverns lengtheninp
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