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Last week the University of California's Dr. Folkert O. Belzer described a machine that, he hopes, will keep kidneys in good condition for as long as three days. About the size of an upright piano, the device contains two Plexiglas cylinders in either of which a kidney may rest on a wire screen. Plasma, fortified with body chemicals and penicillin, is fed to the kidneys' arteries through plastic tubes...
...Along the way, it is reoxygenated and purified, and chilled to reduce still further the likelihood of organ deterioration. When the machine is trundled from the room in which the kidney was removed to the recipient's operating theater, the pump works on a battery without interruption. Dr. Belzer has done four transplants with machine-preserved kidneys, one of which was on the circuit for 17 hours. All appear to have taken. Animal organ grafts have succeeded after 72 hours...
...point, Dr. Belzer emphasizes, is not to see how long a kidney can be kept, but to give the surgeon more time to do his job better. Most transplants are now performed as emergencies, when a donor becomes available for a patient who has been kept waiting for weeks in the hospital. Belzer's machine, which costs $8,000, gives doctors ample time to do thorough testing of blood and tissue types, and to leave the patient at home until they are sure they have the right match. Such a machine should make it possible for surgeons...
Jose Gonzalez, at five should edge Yale's Bill Keeton if he continues his superb play of the past few weeks. In the sixth match, Crimson junior Dick Appleby plays Bob Haar, who won an impressive victory over Princeton's Clinch Belzer last Saturday. Appleby, though, can play some of Harvard's best tennis when he's on his game, and the match should be rated a toss...
...this time Kelly had learned his lesson and, after the kickoff, with time as an added factor, he passed the Indians rapidly downfield to the Harvard 25. After a quick pass to Spangenberg was broken up by Rick Belzer, Kelly threw long to Creelman deep in the end zone. Jerry Mechling was right with the Dartmouth receiver and both went up for the ball...