Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inevitably, because blood is a whole pharmacopoeia in itself, the hematologists had a field day. Dr. Leon N. Sussman of Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital pointed out that besides the familiar ABO and Rh factors noted on every serviceman's dog tag and blood donor's identity card, there are no fewer than 15 other "public"* factors widely distributed in human blood. By computing all the possible combinations of these, Dr. Sussman arrived at the startling figure of 57.6 million different kinds of people distinguishable by telltale proteins in their blood. Because there undoubtedly are still other...
...surgeons could tell, one that had not spread. So Bingel was just the right patient to receive the Brigham's first liver transplant. Twice, before Patrolman Callahan was shot, the Brigham surgeons had thought they had a likely donor, but in each case doctors and patient alike were disappointed because the liver proved to be diseased or injured. Now, for a third time, Patient Bingel was wheeled into the operating room and prepared for surgery...
...donated to needy housewives. Another to a man of 52 whose own cornea had become overgrown with scar tissue after an injury. All of the operations were what ophthalmic surgeons call "penetrating transplants" or "full-thickness grafts," for which fresh corneas must be used within 72 hours of the donor's death. When only the outermost layer of the cornea is needed, for a split-thickness graft, an eye can be used after it has been frozen and banked for weeks...
...minutes after death. Meanwhile, the transplant team under Physician John P. Merrill and Surgeon Joseph E. Murray was getting the accountant ready to receive the graft. Within another hour they had implanted it in the accountant's right flank, and a total of 125 minutes after the donor's death they switched on the transplanted kidney's new circulation...
...kidneys. He still has to take four medicines daily and he has regular blood-cell transfusions. But 16 months after the transplant he is working full time. The Brigham doctors draw no conclusions. They simply note that this is the longest survival for a kidney transplanted from a dead donor to an unrelated patient...