Word: implanters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since 1969 there has been a dramatic improvement in the quality of breast reconstruction. One reason was the development by Dr. Thomas Cronin of Houston of an improved implant. Another is the introduction of a newer, though relatively little-used implant that overcomes most of the problems of earlier prostheses. It is divided into three compartments that reduce its tendency to shrink or collapse; the implant also has a fuzzy polyurethane covering that helps hold it in place against the chest wall. "It makes a dramatic difference," says Dr. Randolph Guthrie of New York's Memorial Hospital for Cancer...
Instant Growth. In more advanced cases, surgery is necessary. The most common operation for scoliosis was developed about ten years ago by Houston's Dr. Paul Harrington, and is now performed on about 80% of all patients requiring surgery. Doctors implant thin steel rods next to the spine, placing them over the bone and under the back muscles. The rods, which are attached to the vertebrae with metal hooks, are then tightened-much like a set of orthodontic braces-to force the spine to straighten. At the same time, the spine is fused to give it additional strength. Patients...
Desperate Condition. The source, as usual, was the victim of a traffic accident. Ten-year-old Jennifer Schrikker was killed by a car, and her mother gave permission for the surgeons to use the child's heart. During the transplant-implant operation, which began at midnight and lasted five hours, Taylor was on the heart-lung machine, which maintains the patient's circulation, allowing his own heart to be stopped during the delicate operation. Only then did Barnard discover how desperate his condition had been: "His left ventricle was nothing but a bag of fibrous tissue." Barnard...
...colleagues into believing that he had grafted black skin onto white animals. He also insists that his reports of successfully transplanting cultured human corneas into rabbits were not deliberately misleading. Instead, Summerlin says, they were based on the erroneous assumption that animals that had actually received a corneal implant in only one eye had been given new corneas in both. Says he: "No one wishes more than I that the actual facts regarding the rabbits had been communicated...
...coronary bypass is unquestionably the most frequently performed piece of radical major surgery in the U.S. Some 25,000 times a year, doctors open the chest of a heart-disease victim to implant a piece of one of the patient's own veins or arteries to carry blood around an obstruction in the coronary artery that feeds the heart muscle. But is the bypass operation always necessary? Not according to Dr. Henry Russek, a professor of cardiology at New York Medical College. At a conference on cardiology at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston last week, Russek claimed that...