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Once the heart has been stopped, Effler calls for the saphenous vein, measures it and cuts off the required length. Then he sews it into place, first below and then above the obstruction. With the first graft in place, Effler repeats the procedure on the right coronary artery and checks to make sure that there is no leakage. This done, he disconnects the patient from the heart-lung machine, restarts the heart with a second electric shock and slips out of the operating room for a breather while an assistant cuts away the mammary artery. A few minutes later, Effler...
...promising. Of Johnson's revascularization patients, 77% have survived at least two years after their operations; some of Effler's earliest patients have lived three years with their new plumbing. Most bypass patients are not only alive, but well. A Massachusetts lawyer who underwent an emergency bypass graft a year ago has resumed his law practice, and Jack Chronin of New York, who had his cardiac plumbing redone last October, has recovered even more remarkably. Determined to keep himself and his heart healthy, he has taken up jogging...
...knew, of course, that so-and-so was the "bagman," a collector of graft and bribes for Mayor Frank Hague, whose machine Kenny served and then ousted. That somebody's indolent cousin had been put "on the pad" by some ward leader's exertions. That every year on "Rice Pudding Day" those lucky enough to receive city patronage or employment kicked back a certain percentage of their gains. That "the little guy" himself distributed work tickets early in the morning to men going to the docks for the shape-up. That, as a matter of course...
...sister, Anne, the mother of three. Told that a healthy person can live comfortably with only half the normal length of small intestine, Anne volunteered to give half of hers to her sister. Their blood-cell types proved to be an unusually close match, reducing the probability that a graft would be rejected...
...free of cancer, they disconnected their short circuit. Then they opened Anne's abdomen and removed about five feet of small intestine (the lower jejunum and upper ileum), and used this to replace Jane's missing tract. The surgeons also left a small, separate piece of the graft protruding through the abdominal wall, to facilitate observation of the transplant's progress. Last week the courageous donor was eating normally, and she expects to go home within a few days. Recipient Jane, after setting an endurance record for long-term survival on intravenous feeding, hungrily looked forward...