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French surgeons had to wait for months-not only for a suitable donor and recipient but also for their government to decide when a dead man is dead. At last the Cabinet ruled that a donor is dead when his electroencephalogram (brainwave recording) has shown no activity and he has had no reflexes for several hours. Scarcely was this decision taken when Donor Michel Gyppaz, 23, died of head injuries at Paris' ancient, crumbling Hopital de la Pitie...
...Connections. After many such tests, Ungar concluded that the fear had indeed been transferred and that the degree of transfer depended on the amount of extract injected. It was also affected by the training of the donor rats-longer training produced better transfer-and the interval between training and removal of the donor-rat brain; brain removal too soon after training apparently prevented the transfer material from fully developing...
...transplant was on the move. Blaiberg expected soon to go to a seaside cottage south of Cape Town, and was talking about a 1969 visit to Europe. Surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard was in Europe again with brother Marius, and pondering an invitation to Moscow. Dorothy Haupt, widow of the donor of Blaiberg's heart, accepted a trip to Buenos Aires for TV appearances, with $1,000 added...
...organs the patient specified for donation. The doctor can also get the name of the next of kin-from whom, under most present state laws, permission must still be sought. It will stm be up to both the doctor and Medic Alert to inform transplant surgeons that an organ donor is available...
...point, Dr. Belzer emphasizes, is not to see how long a kidney can be kept, but to give the surgeon more time to do his job better. Most transplants are now performed as emergencies, when a donor becomes available for a patient who has been kept waiting for weeks in the hospital. Belzer's machine, which costs $8,000, gives doctors ample time to do thorough testing of blood and tissue types, and to leave the patient at home until they are sure they have the right match. Such a machine should make it possible for surgeons...