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Chief Surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard, who earlier in the week accepted an honorary D.Sc. from Cape Town University and offhandedly reported that his arthritic hands had not bothered him at all during the five-hour operation, quickly assembled his team at Washkansky's bedside. Whether a heart-transplant patient who had diabetes and was on immunosuppressive drugs could fight off pneumonia was difficult to say. Yet at week's end the hospital still listed Washkansky's condition as "satisfactory." Said Surgeon Barnard: "It's worrying, of course. But I think we can get this infection under...
N.Y.U., playing its first home match of the season before a vocal crowd of 200, fenced all nine matches in the first round without a loss. Bob Barnard began to ease the embarrassment of the second round with a 5-3 victory over N.Y.U.'s number two saber. Harvard won three of the next five saber bouts, confirming the trend of the season's first four matches which indicated greater strength in saber than epee or foil...
Slippery Stitching. Surgeons have dreamed for centuries of making just the sort of replacement of a diseased or injured limb or organ that Dr. Barnard made last week. But when they tried to make their dreams reality, they found themselves encaged by invisible but seemingly invincible forces, mysterious beyond their understanding. Italian surgeons during the Renaissance occasionally succeeded in repairing a sword-slashed nose or ear with flesh from the patient's own arm, but got nowhere with person-to-person grafts. The first widely attempted transplants were blood transfusions, from lamb to man or man to man. Almost...
...Shumway also introduced a refinement of technique in heart transplants used by both Dr. Barnard and Dr. Kantrowitz last week. In animal surgery, it had been customary to remove the entire heart. This meant severing and later rejoining not only the two great arteries, but also two great veins returning spent blood to the heart and four veins returning oxygenated blood from the lungs. By leaving in place parts of the walls of the upper heart chambers (auricles or atria) to which these six veins return, Dr. Shumway eliminated an enormous amount of delicate suturing in sensitive areas...
...Lillehei, like many of today's foremost surgeons and professors of surgery, absorbed much of what they know of the technique and exploratory spirit of their calling from the University of Minnesota's great (and lately retired, at 68) Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen. So did Christiaan Barnard, who was at Minnesota in 1953-1955. Barnard, the son of a Dutch Reformed minister, had always wanted to be a doctor. His father, on a cash income of $56 a month, gave three of his four sons a university education...