Word: duodenum
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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...
...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...
...stones" range in size from a grain of sand to a marble. They are made up of cholesterol, bile acids and other digestive substances, and when they interfere with the flow of fat-digesting bile to the duodenum (see diagram), they may cause sharp and colicky pain, especially after a heavy, fatty meal. This is what happened to President Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch early last month...
...second set of X rays, forwarded to the President's longtime friend and personal physician, the Mayo Clinic's Dr. James C. Cain, gave added evidence that the gall bladder contained stones. Since some bile always passes directly through the common duct from the liver to the duodenum, and the duct seems able to develop some storage capacity of its own, man can live without his gall bladder. Thus surgery to remove the offending organ (cholecystectomy), far from being a desperate last resort was the doctors' first choice...