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Although the Peace Corps gives all its volunteers massive shots of gamma globulin every four to six months, infectious hepatitis is still their occupational disease because of the unsanitary conditions where they work. In the U.S., a majority of the approximately 150 cases of acute yellow atrophy reported each year are caused by infectious hepatitis, Trey believes. Even with his exchange-transfusion treatment, the survival rate is only 22%, but that is far better than the pretransfusion...
...most noted transplant teams have now turned to antilymphocyte serum or globulin (TIME July 26). It is made by injecting human white blood cells into animals (usually horses), which make antibody against them. When this antibody, extracted from the animal's serum, is injected into a transplant patient, it interferes with the ability of his own white cells to make antibody against his graft...
What the hemophiliac's blood lacks, because of a genetic defect transmitted from mother to son, is a clotting protein known as antihemophilic factor (AHF) or globulin (AHG), also called Factor VIII. Because of this deficiency, the hemophilia victim lives in constant danger of severe bleeding from the most minor wound, such as a finger cut or a tooth extraction. Even with no external injury, he may bleed internally after a bump or a stumble. This is especially likely to happen inside his joints, causing arthritis with progressive deformity and disability...
Starzl stopped operating while he and his colleagues worked on a less hazardous method of immunosuppression, using antilymphocyte serum or globulin extracted from horses into which human white blood cells had been injected (TIME, July 26). Only when the technique was developed satisfactorily did he begin transplanting again. In his second series, Starzl operated last year on Julie Rodriguez, now 21, who suffered from cancer of the liver. Julie has had to be readmitted for additional treatment, but has now survived for a record twelve months. Starzl has no hope of curing her cancer, which has spread. What is certain...
...Star. The area of deepest ignorance and most hopeful new reports covered the problem of protecting the implanted heart against rejection. Here the star turned out to be not a surgeon but a drug, forbiddingly named antilymphocyte globulin...