Word: duodenum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than the kidney has been disappointingly slow, not only because of rejection reactions but also because of technical difficulties in surgery. Last week surgeons at the University of Minnesota Hospitals in Minneapolis were anxiously watching the progress of the first patient to receive a triple transplant-kidney, pancreas and duodenum...
...eventually damages nearly all the body's arteries, including those supplying the kidneys. In this case, the patient's kidneys had already failed, and she was being kept alive by dialysis. Her pancreas was functioning poorly. The doctors were equally concerned about the working of her duodenum, a source of little-understood hormones...
Last New Year's Eve, another woman died at the hospital from the effects of a stroke. Dr. William D. Kelly and Dr. Richard C. Lillehei already had permission to remove the organs they needed. They took out the conjoined pancreas and duodenum as a unit and also took a kidney. They implanted the kidney near the patient's right groin. Then, instead of replacing her own pancreas and duodenum with the graft, they left her digestive tract intact and implanted the entire new unit in the left iliac fossa, just above the groin. It is hooked...
...Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota Hospitals reported the first promising results (TIME, May 18, 1962). Freezing the stomach wall for a short time, Dr. Wangensteen explained, knocks out much of its capacity for producing hydrochloric acid, thus reducing the amount of the corrosive juice that flows into the duodenum, the next chamber down the digestive tract. If acid production should bounce back, he said, the stomach could safely be refrozen. (Whether the technique should be used for gastric ulcers, in the stomach itself, is a separate, unresolved question...
...this 42-inch loop and stitched it into the side of the transverse colon, leaving the remaining 15 to 20 feet of the small bowel as a nonfunctioning blind loop. When the man recovered from the operation, he continued to overeat, but the food digested in his stomach and duodenum passed more directly into his colon. He absorbed enough protein and starch to keep him alive but not enough fat to maintain his weight...