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...looked closely at that before going forward," says Dr. Donald Hill, chief of cardiovascular surgery at San Francisco's Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center. The strokes may have been caused by blood clots that formed somewhere in or near the artificial heart and then traveled to the brain. According to Cardiologist Fredarick Gobel of the Minneapolis Heart Institute, the risk of such traveling clots, or emboli, is great "whenever you have foreign + materials in the vascular system." To reduce this risk for Haydon, doctors gave him anticoagulants before and after surgery, though this increases the risk of bleeding...
Along with its seclusion, an important factor in the Kremlin Hospital's location is its proximity--only a quarter-mile--from Moscow's $117 million U.S.S.R. Cardiology Research Center. The center's director is the eminent cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, who is also a full member of the Soviet Central Committee. As director of the Ministry of Health's Fourth Department, Chazov is in charge of caring for the health of Soviet leaders...
...Second, like 12 million other Americans, he suffers from diabetes, which is also grounds for disqualification. "If he received a transplant, the antirejection drugs would just throw his diabetes out of control," noted Dr. J.P. Salb, the Schroeders' family physician. It was Salb, along with Schroeder's cardiologist, Dr. Phillip Dawkins, who suggested that he look into the possibility of an artificial heart. By chance, DeVries, the only surgeon authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to implant the device, had moved this summer from the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City to Humana Hospital...
...like humans." Barnard is nonetheless enthusiastic about the Baby Fae case and has no qualms about the use of baboons, which, he says, are shot on sight by South African farmers, who consider them a nuisance. Perhaps the strangest example of simian-human surgery was tried in 1975 by Cardiologist Magdi Yacoub in England. In an effort to sustain the life of a one-year-old boy during extensive surgery, Yacoub connected the child's circulatory system to the heart of a living baboon. Both the boy and the animal died during the procedure...
...only exercised regularly but spent part of each day in tight, constraining suits that forced their lungs and hearts to work harder. Still, when they landed last Tuesday, Soviet television showed them looking tired, with dark circles under their eyes. The most alert and healthy-looking was Atkov, a cardiologist who had kept close watch on the condition of his crewmates. Mission Commander Kizim and Engineer Solovyev looked pale and haggard, but happy to be home. "We feel well," insisted Kizim, lying back in a chair...