Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in two hospitals separated by almost 8,000 miles of Atlantic Ocean, the historic juxtaposition happened and the heart transplants were performed. The physicians who performed them thus reached the surgical equivalent of Mount Everest, followed automatically by the medical equivalent of the problem of how to get down-in other words, how to keep the patient and transplant alive...
...this, the team at Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center, headed by Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, admitted "unequivocal failure." Their patient, a 19-day-old boy, died 6½ hours after he received a new heart. But the team of Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard, 44, which acted first at Cape Town, South Africa, had a more enduring success. Their patient, a 55-year-old man, was feeding himself and making small talk a week after his epochal surgery. At this time, as expected, there appeared the first signs of a tendency by his body to reject the transplant, but the doctors...
...Ahead." The Cape Town drama began three months ago, when Louis Washkansky, a wholesale grocer, was admitted to suburban Groote Schuur Hospital with progressive heart failure. Because of two heart attacks, one seven years ago and the other two years ago, the burly patient's heart muscle was not getting enough blood through clogged and closed coronary arteries. He also had diabetes, for which he had been getting insulin. His liver was enlarged. Surgeon Barnard's cardiologist colleagues gave "Washy" (as he was known to World War II buddies in North Africa and Italy) only a few months...
...killed instantly. Denise was barely alive, but only barely, on arrival at Groote Schuur Hospital. Her head and brain were almost completely destroyed. The emergency room called Dr. Barnard. The doctors agreed: Denise could not survive. Barnard took Darvall aside and explained what he wanted-the gift of a heart, unprecedented in history. Edward Darvall listened numbly as Barnard told him: "We have done our best, and there is nothing more that can be done to help your daughter. There is no hope for her. You can do us and humanity a great favor if you will let us transplant...
...National Institutes of Health also decided in 1963 that the eventual remedy for incurable heart disease must lie in a complete artificial heart, and set 1972 as the tentative target date for getting one to work. Last year N.I.H. concluded that this was unrealistic at this time, and dumped much of the $8,700,000 available into research grants for the perfection of "half-hearts"-devices to assist the left ventricle, or take over its work entirely for a time...