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...damage to the blood if left in the body for too long, Cooley, along with Karp's family, issued a nationwide appeal for a human heart to replace it as quickly as possible. It was a starkly explicit appeal,calling for a person "with irreversible brain damage, good cardiac function and O-positive blood...
...that he had a suitable donor. Mrs. Barbara Ewan, who had suffered fatal brain damage, was considered medically dead (complete absence of brain waves for a period of 48 hours) when she arrived in Houston, but her heart had been kept beating with injections of stimulants. She suffered cardiac arrest just eight blocks from the medical center, and was re ceiving heart massage when she arrived...
...things: love, all sorts of live, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duck Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. . . ." This is a flippantly stated philosophy, but the hedonistic note it sound accords well with Vian's own life-style. A cardiac case from childhood, Vian decided to ignore his illness with a vengeance. He was a jazz musician, a composer, an engineer, an actor and a playwright as well as a novelist. Friend of writers like Sartre and Ionesco, habitué of the caves of Saint-Germain-des-Pr?...
...suffered his fourth heart attack. Three more followed in close succession. Then, last week, came a 2-hour, 20-minute operation to remove an obstruction in the lower intestine, which can be a serious test of surgical skill under the best of circumstances. Eisenhower's age and cardiac history, which made it extremely hazardous for him to undergo anesthesia, added to the operation's delicacy. Yet the obstruction had to be cleared. Specialists consulted with the patient and his wife, then they announced: "The General and Mrs. Eisenhower accepted the decision for surgery with equanimity...
...Cripple. Far from making a "cardiac cripple" of their patient, as so many doctors were still doing, Ike's physicians advised him to get all the exercise he could. He did not overeat, and he cut down on hard fats and sweets. This regimen kept Eisenhower's arteries working well for eight full years. Then came his second and third heart attacks, in 1965. Again, Ike recovered astonishingly well for a man then 75 years old. But more episodes were predictable...