Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once from an Ape. So far, surgeons have thought of three possible replacements for an incurably failing heart: an animal's heart, another human heart, and a completely artificial heart. The animal heart has been used only once, in a case that illuminated both sides of the surgeon's dilemma. At the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Dr. James D. Hardy had, on three occasions, a patient dying of brain injuries who would have been a suitable donor-but he had no recipient. Twice, when he had potential recipients of a transplant, he had no human donors...
Fail-Safe Protection. Since animals seem of little help, surgeons have been forced back on human sources. Here, Stanford University's Dr. Norman E. Shumway could offer reassurance from many years of experimental surgery on dogs. A nagging question had been: What about the heart's nerve connections, since these cannot be reestablished in transplant surgery? Dr. Shumway's answer: It doesn't matter. Like practically everything else in nature, the heart has fail-safe protection. It has an internal, independent, electrical "ignition systern" to trigger its beats. This system speeds up in response to outside...
...Shumway also introduced a refinement of technique in heart transplants used by both Dr. Barnard and Dr. Kantrowitz last week. In animal surgery, it had been customary to remove the entire heart. This meant severing and later rejoining not only the two great arteries, but also two great veins returning spent blood to the heart and four veins returning oxygenated blood from the lungs. By leaving in place parts of the walls of the upper heart chambers (auricles or atria) to which these six veins return, Dr. Shumway eliminated an enormous amount of delicate suturing in sensitive areas...
Died. Robert Helberg, 61, Boeing aircraft scientist, builder of the immensely successful Lunar Orbiter spacecraft; of a heart attack; in Seattle. As the prime contractor's man in charge of the venture since inception in 1963, Helberg gets much credit for the five camera-bearing vehicles that whizzed around the moon and snapped some of the most dramatic pictures in all science...
Died. Benton Spruance, 63, U.S. lithographer; of a heart attack; in Germantown, Pa. Etching vibrant colors into stone, he treated stories ranging from the Minotaur legend to the life of St. Francis, and, as museums across the country (Washington's National Gallery, Manhattan's Whitney) collected his prints, earned major recognition, most recently for The Passion of Ahab, 30 prints illustrating Moby Dick...