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According to a WNAC-TV report, the donor was a 41-year-old woman who died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and who had two sons, one of whom is Shelales...
...Massachusetts Department of Public Health has been approving heart transplants on a case-by-case basis since early January. Although Shelales was the first candidate approved at BWH, a suitable donor was first found for Boucher. Massachusetts is the only state in the country to require state approval for heart transplants...
...first case approved by the state was a patient at Tufts Medical Center, who died before a donor could be found...
...doctors who performed the operation--including Collins, Mudge, Professor of Surgery Lawrence H. Cohn, and Dr. Robert J. Shemin--all participated in last week's transplant. Shemin transported the donor heart from Worcester in the same picnic cooler used last week to carry Boucher's new organ...
...major factor in the success of last week's transplant was the drug Cyclosporin A, an immunosuppressant whose function is to reduce the chances that the patients body will reject the donor organ...