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Universal Donor. Though Denise Darvall's heart had stopped beating and she was dead, her heart could not be allowed to degenerate. Irreparable cell damage begins at the temperature of a naturally cooling cadaver in 30 minutes. It can be postponed for two to three hours by cooling. The Barnard team took no chances. By this time, Denise's body was in an operating room a few feet from the operating room in which Washkansky lay. A surgeon opened her chest by a midline incision, snipped some ribs and exposed the heart with its attached blood vessels...
Meanwhile, Pathologist M. C. Botha was working in his laboratory with a sample of Denise's blood. Washkansky's type was A-positive; Denise's was O-negative. She was the ideal "universal donor." There was no time for Dr. Botha to try matching their white blood cells so that the surgeons could estimate how strong a rejection reaction Washkansky's system would mount against the foreign protein of Denise's heart...
...painstaking sequence, Dr. Barnard stitched the donor heart in place. First the left-auricle, then the right. He joined the stub of Denise's aorta to Washkansky's, her pulmonary artery to his. Finally, the veins. Assistant surgeons removed the catheters from the implant as Barnard worked...
Kondo had no scrolls and would not get them until he received the money. The bargaining began: Cross would not procure his U.S. donor's money until he had established that the scrolls were not fake. Kondo said his party would never give up the scrolls until they had the money. The two compromised. If Kondo would send Cross pictures of the writing on each scroll and a photo of a complete scroll, Cross would tell if they were authentic and would pay without actually seeing them...
Surgically, such an operation would be far simpler than transplanting a heart, liver or even a kidney. But Dr. Norman emphasized that further experimentation-with dogs-must be conducted before spleen transplantation is attempted on a human being. Then, in all probability, a donor's spleen will be enclosed in a plastic bag, hooked up to a hemophiliac's circulating system and hung externally on his arm until it is certain that the method works...