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During their five-day flight, the crew of seven will deploy two commercial communications satellites, study space motion sickness and the effects of weightlessness on the cardiovascular system, and conduct 36 experiments that may lead to the development of new life-saving drugs...
Unresolved questions about Schroeder's condition and what caused his strokes led some doctors to criticize Humana for rushing ahead with another implant. "They should have waited until this thing with Schroeder is over and 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...
...medical world will be reflecting on the case of Baby Fae for a long time. While a number of physicians considered the experiment premature, most were impressed and surprised by the infant's record-setting survival. "This has been a success," says Dr. Donald Hill, chief of cardiovascular surgery at Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco. "They have demonstrated that there is a window early in life where the opportunity to make a successful transplant from a baboon to a human exists." But neither Hill nor other doctors foresaw any possibility of using simian hearts as a permanent solution...
Since most patients are older men, the risk of cardiovascular problems associated with DES is especially great...
They found that 85 percent of the DES patients and 86 percent of the leuprolide patients responded to treatment, but those on DES suffered from breast swelling, vomiting, cardiovascular problems, while those on leuprolide only reported hot flashes...