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...Asia. The recipients need the money, no matter how neutral they would like to be. At week's end, the conference agreed to hire an expediter for the regional training program, admitted a 21st member (the Maldive Islands, a British protectorate southwest of India), and hinted that more donor nations would be welcome. Leading candidate for an invitation: West Germany...
...neither case, Dr. Zubrod told the Association of Military Surgeons last week, is whole blood used; only fractions are needed. In some cases the remainder can be returned to the donor's veins so that his supply is scarcely depleted, and he can act as a donor again within a few days...
Spin the Platelets. Progress along these lines has already been made in supplying platelets-the tiny elements in the blood which enable it to clot-from healthy donors to leukemia patients threatened with uncontrollable hemorrhage. A healthy donor gives two pints of blood at a sitting, instead of the usual single pint. But while he is still on the table, high-speed centrifuges separate the platelets. Most of the rest of the blood (red cells, white cells and plasma) is returned to his veins at once. He can continue such donations twice a week for months on end. Al ready...
Within minutes after the donor died, Ralph Huntley, a mechanical engineer who has switched to biophysics, began cooling the body "from the inside out" by perfusing it with chilled saline solution. He kept this up while Surgeon Thomas Marchioro cut out the liver. Dr. Starzl cut out Mrs. Goodfellow's diseased liver at almost the same moment as its replacement arrived in a chilled, sterile container. Then Dr. Starzl stitched the newly arrived liver in, connecting its blood vessels to their counterparts in Mrs. Goodfellow's body. This part of the operation took 164 minutes...
Second Chance. So alert and powerful are the body's defenses against invasion by proteins from any other body, human or animal (except an identical twin), that some transplant researchers believe donor and recipient should be "look-alikes." An eloquent exception to that argument is a long-surviving kidney transplant, now more than a year old, from a fatally injured Negro to a white...