Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barnard was visiting the U.S. during Christmas week, he got reports from Cape Town that the patient next in line for a transplant, Philip Blaiberg, 58, was getting weaker. Several coronary occlusions had compelled Blaiberg to give up his practice as a dentist and caused irreparable damage to his heart, which was steadily failing. On Dr. Barnard's return, the transplant team at Groote Schuur Hospital was ready. So was Blaiberg, who insisted that he wanted the next transplant even when Barnard told him of Washkansky's death. But where would the heart come from? And would...
...frothy blood coming from his mouth. From a local hospital, he was shuttled fast to the better-equipped Victoria Hospital, where doctors concluded that he had suffered a stroke-a massive brain hemorrhage. They saw little hope that he could survive. But since Haupt had apparently been fit, his heart was probably in good condition, so they telephoned the surgeons at Groote Schuur, who did not hesitate to say "Bring...
...delicate problem. Haupt was of a complicated racial mixture (part white, part Bantu, part Malay, perhaps even part Hottentot) that is classified as "Colored" under South Africa's race laws. Dr. Barnard asked Blaiberg whether he would object to receiving a Colored man's heart. No, replied the desperate patient-who, like Washkansky, happened to be Jewish. Then the surgeons had to get consent from Haupt's next of kin. His wife Dorothy collapsed when she was told he could not survive. To protect themselves, the doctors asked Haupt's mother. Widowed three years...
...Hoffenberg, the duty doctor at Groote Schuur at the time, to assess Haupt's condition and his chances of survival. Hoffenberg concluded that even if extreme measures were used to support breathing, the patient could not live long. He lay in a deepening coma. When Haupt's heart stopped, it was Dr. Hoffenberg who certified that he was legally dead. That came at 10:35 a.m. Tuesday. One group of surgeons began to remove Haupt's heart. In the operating room where Washkansky had received his transplant other surgeons had Patient Blaiberg almost ready...
...they opened his chest and made the necessary connections to a heart-lung machine to supply oxygenated blood to his body (except the heart) and brain. Then they removed his heart. In its place, Dr. Barnard installed Haupt's heart, using essentially the same technique as in Washkansky's case (TIME, Dec. 15). There was, however, a different atmosphere. The 30-man team of surgeons, physicians and nurses were less tense. As Barnard put it: "We are not going into the unknown-we are going where we have been before." Another difference was encouraging. The transplanted heart began...