Word: braine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provocative writings: That's what academic writing is supposed to be all about -- daring and speculative and provocative, trying out ideas. You don't see that kind of writing in my professional work. In academic life, not much is at stake except whether your brain is working that day. But as a judge, you can't run counter to the conventional wisdom unless you're absolutely sure you're correct...
...difficulties of separating them were clear from X rays. The boys had separate brains, but they shared a major vein in the back of the head called the sagittal superior sinus, a large canal through which blood flows toward the heart. Past efforts to separate similarly joined twins had resulted in either death or brain damage. Indeed, one such attempt by doctors in Chicago in 1981 ended tragically with both children bleeding to death on the operating table. Theresia, 20, and Josef Binder, 36, searched in their own country and the U.S. for a medical team that could offer their...
Carson agonized over what material to use in constructing separate veins for the boys. Because brain sinuses are structurally different from veins elsewhere in the body, a vessel from the leg or another area would not do. Finally a colleague suggested a novel solution: using part of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart. "That was a fabulous idea," says Carson. "We knew we were going into the chest anyway. It was right there in front of us saying, 'Take...
When the hearts were restarted with an electrical jolt and blood, warmed in the bypass machines, was recirculated, doctors faced another complication: massive bleeding in each infant's brain. Overall, the surgery consumed 60 pints of blood products, dozens of times the babies' normal volume. Worried about rapid swelling of the brain tissue, the team decided to wait for a later date to install titanium plates custom designed to help close the babies' skulls. In addition, there was not enough scalp to cover both infants' heads; Benjamin's was therefore temporarily closed with surgical mesh...
...operation and subsequent care would eventually total hundreds of thousands of dollars, but all members of the medical team are waiving their fees, and the hospital is absorbing most of the other costs. The twins' hospitalization could last several months. Among the risks they face: blood clots, brain hemorrhaging, seizures and sweeping infection that, according to Rogers, "could kill them in 24 hours." Preliminary tests have shown that both boys can move all four limbs independently and are sensitive to pain. That, doctors noted, was a good omen: it signaled that Patrick's and Benjamin's nervous systems...