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Since the original contribution was received in 1958, the Center's endowment has grown to $7 million thanks primarily to the gifts of two friends of the original donor, Carman said. "However, we have suffered from the heavy inflation of recent years," he said...
...Pittsburgh, Thomas Gaidosh, 47, a burly, 6-ft. 3-in. factory worker and father of two, languished in his hospital bed last month, struggling for his life. For weeks, doctors at Presbyterian-University Hospital had been searching for a donor heart to replace his debilitated one. Time was running out. Across the state, in the chocolate capital of Hershey, Anthony Mandia, 44, was losing a similar battle. Mandia, a Philadelphia recreation-center director, had a history of coronaries, and now his heart was deteriorating rapidly, but no donor could be found. On the West Coast, Richard Dallara, 33, an auto...
Last week they appeared to have safely crossed that bridge. Within hours of one another, the three men underwent surgery to replace their temporary mechanical devices with donor hearts. At week's end all seemed to be making progress, and none showed signs of rejection...
Used as a bridge, the mechanical heart is kept in place until the patient's condition stabilizes and a donor organ is found. Surgeons can now choose among several types of pumps. While Gaidosh received the familiar Jarvik-7, Mandia's surgery marked the debut of the Penn State heart, developed by Surgeon William Pierce of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. It has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for temporary use only and is designed to overcome the blood-clotting problems that have plagued Jarvik-7 recipients. Dallara, meanwhile, was connected to a pair of external...
...since the summer, Mann said, "We think we are getting closer to a compromise position. The donor had clearly wanted there to be a stream of income for the forest, and we had to weigh that against Harvard taking the endowment. There is a cut-off point, but I don't know what it is. That's why we're trying to compromise. The parties disagree, but we are making some progress...