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Researchers and surgeons tried pumping human blood through baboon livers as early as 1965. Since then, Virginia Commonwealth University's Dr. David Hume and a team of colleagues headed by the Medical College of Georgia's Dr. George Abouna have refined the technique. Their findings, reported in the British Medical Journal, offer new hope for many victims of liver failure...
...Abouna group's first two patients were suffering from fulminating viral hepatitis, which had completely shut down their liver function. Death was only hours away when Abouna resorted to the use of baboons. The animals were given fatal doses of anesthesia. Their excised livers were then washed in order to remove, as much as possible, the proteins that might trigger a reaction in the patient. Finally, the patients' circulatory systems were hooked up to the blood vessels of the isolated livers, which rested at bedside in stainless steel chambers. While the patients' blood circulated through the baboon...
...knows just how many patients die each year of hepatic coma, but they certainly number in the thousands. Those whose livers have not been irreparably damaged could probably benefit from the Abouna method, which, unlike some other exotic procedures, does not involve long waits or inordinate costs. While baboons are not as plentiful as alley cats, they are being raised in several U.S. primate colonies, and as they only cost about $250 apiece, they are relatively inexpensive animals...
...Affaires, William Perry George, arrived at the Palace, a large and ostensibly impromptu Ethiopian crowd suddenly produced small U. S. flags from beneath their loose garments, waved these frantically and shrilled something that was supposed to sound like "Long live America!" During the birthday reception, the Abouna Kyrillos, head of Ethiopia's Christian Coptic Church, stood with his large right foot prominently planted on the base of the Emperor's Throne. Grouped around His Majesty were potent chiefs, headed by Ras Moulougueta, Minister of War. Pointedly absent was the Italian Minister. Said native courtiers with arched eyebrows: "Such...
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