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...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Human Heart." Walter Cronkite questions South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and other heart specialists on the moral and legal implications of transplanting human organs. Surviving heart patients, including Dr. Philip Blaiberg, will appear...
...babies under the chin. At home between constitutionals, he ate so heartily that he put on two pounds last week. It was true that every other day he dropped into the hospital for a checkup, and he was taking about 30 pills a day. But Cape Town Dentist Philip Blaiberg, 58, was in far better shape than he had been before he received his heart transplant. The daily bulletins on his condition monotonously reported "excellent progress...
Those 30 pills included antacids and vitamins and, more important, digitalis to strengthen the action of his new heart and two drugs to suppress the immune mechanism by which Blaiberg's body might reject the graft: azathioprine (Imuran) and the hormone prednisone. The doctors at Groote Schuur Hos pital were cautiously reducing the doses of immunosuppressives-his moonfaced appearance was a sign of cortisonism-and they hoped soon to be able to cut down his checkup visits to one a week. Blaiberg was writing a diary for daily newspaper syndication, and his wife Eileen, fresh from a crash course...
Virtually everyone involved in the transplant was on the move. Blaiberg expected soon to go to a seaside cottage south of Cape Town, and was talking about a 1969 visit to Europe. Surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard was in Europe again with brother Marius, and pondering an invitation to Moscow. Dorothy Haupt, widow of the donor of Blaiberg's heart, accepted a trip to Buenos Aires for TV appearances, with $1,000 added...
Touring French Singer Francoise Hardy signed autographs for the crowd in Johannesburg, but she was only a spectator herself, waiting outside Groote Schuur Hospital for Philip Blaiberg, 58, world's only living heart-transplant patient. With Surgeon Christiaan Barnard looking on from the doorway, and Wife Elaine at his elbow, Blaiberg took his first breath of fresh air after 74 days in germ-free isolation, then walked to a limousine that carried him home. Ahead lay a careful, publicity-free regimen at his apartment in the suburb of Wynberg, with no visitors for a month, no telephone calls...