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Retired Cape Town Dentist Philip Blaiberg lived longer than any other heart-transplant patient, 191 months. But last week his 22-year-old daughter Jill belittled her father's borrowed time and blasted the operation and Surgeon Christiaan Barnard. "I personally think heart transplants are not worthwhile. I saw my father suffer." She blamed Dr. Barnard for urging the family to make money out of the operation. The resultant publicity, she said, "set my life back by more than two years...
...ends with Washkansky's death, after only 18 days of new life, and Barnard's undaunted response: "I'm going to America and appear on Face the Nation. I'm going to face the world -and then come back and do a transplant on Dr. Blaiberg...
...obscure Negro schoolteacher from Indianapolis has made surgical history. Louis B. Russell Jr. has surpassed the record for heart-transplant survival set by Cape Town Dentist Philip Blaiberg, who lived for 594 days after his operation. Although Blaiberg was depicted as being hale and hearty as a Rotarian greeter, a recent book by his widow reveals that he was miserably uncomfortable, if not downright ill during most of his life with his new heart. Russell, who at week's end had survived 603 days, appears to be in far better shape than Blaiberg...
...reason may be Russell's age: Blaiberg was 58 when he received his new heart; Russell will be only 45 this week. Also, Blaiberg's heart disease was of long standing and had damaged other major organ systems before the transplant, but Russell's heart attacks, in 1962 and 1965, had caused no such widespread difficulties. Finally, in 1968, Indianapolis Cardiologist Robert Chevalier diagnosed heart disease of such severity that only a new heart could give Russell a chance for survival. He referred Russell to Surgeon Richard Lower at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Lower...
Died. Father Damien Boulogne, 58, the Dominican priest who lived 523 days with a transplanted heart, a record second only to that of South Africa's Dr. Philip Blaiberg, who survived for 594 days; of as yet undetermined causes; in Paris. On May 12, 1968, Boulogne received the heart of a 39-year-old Paris customs officer, and within a few months had resumed a more or less normal life, working on a book and regularly celebrating Mass. His death came as a complete surprise to Jiis doctor, Charles Dubost, who was away lecturing at a Mexican university...