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...fluid had collected in his chest. Doctors later learned that the fluid was blood that had congealed into a jelly-like glob and was pressing against the upper left chamber of Burcham's natural heart (the Jarvik-7 actually replaces only the lower, pumping chambers). This pressure, known as cardiac tamponade, prevented blood from entering the artificial heart and caused it to back up into the left lung (see illustration...
...Though cardiac tamponade is easily recognized in a patient with a normal heart, the presence of the artificial device masked the usual signs. By the time a sudden drop in blood pressure alerted doctors to the danger, said DeVries, lifesaving efforts "were doomed to failure." The surgeon was summoned to the hospital from downtown Louisville, where he was attending a conference on heart replacement, but he arrived too late: Burcham had already stopped breathing and had no blood pressure. "I was there for about 15 minutes, 20 minutes," DeVries said, "before we turned the key (to the Jarvik-7 power...
...openly critical of the implants; many point out that pioneering efforts in open-heart surgery and human heart transplants also met with many disappointments and failures. "This is a new technical endeavor, and naturally it is going to be fraught with complications," observes Dr. Floyd Loop, chief of cardiac surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Loop is confident that "with a few more cases" DeVries and his colleagues will learn to control problems like bleeding. Transplant Surgeon Philip Oyer of Stanford concurs. Says he: "This is not the time to say stop...
...replace a heart , ravaged by two heart attacks and cardiomyopathy, a progressive disease of the heart muscle. Right from the start there were problems with the transplanted organ, and a pacemaker had to be used. Then Creighton's body began rejecting the heart. At 3 a.m. he went into cardiac arrest...
...Paris, the left-leaning French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur said that Chernenko had suffered a "brain (stroke) or cardiac attack." The attack occurred a week ago and robbed Chernenko of his speech, the magazine claimed...