Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...transplanted from a Negro boy of 13, who died of a brain tumor. A man in Virginia whose body sloughed off one kidney transplant was making medical history by apparently accepting a second. These were all "homotransplants" (between two humans). But in New Orleans, a woman for whom no donor could be found in time, had a pair of monkey kidneys implanted in her groin. This was the first significant "heterotransplant" (between different species), important even though it finally failed and the patient went back on the artificial kidney...
Across the street at Denver's VA Hospital, a man was admitted for accidental gunshot wounds, and when it became clear that he could not survive, relatives gave permission for the use of his liver in a transplant. As the prospective donor's life ebbed, Surgeon Thomas E. Starzl opened Mrs. Goodfellow's abdomen to get her ready for a quick transplant. This operation took ten hours. Her liver was so enlarged by disease that instead of a normal 4 Ibs. it weighed closer to 20 Ibs. Dr. Starzl left his patient anesthetized, with her liver "just...
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...