Word: implanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing a heart transplant!" The "mess" meant that surgery was even busier than usual, with 15 operations scheduled; four were still in progress when Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr. began the four-part series to remove the donor's heart and transplant one of her kidneys, and implant her heart in Mike Kasperak's chest...
Distributor Cap. When Mrs. White died, a team headed by Dr. William Angell removed her heart. Dr. Shumway did not have it perfused with blood, as had been done in South Africa, while Kasperak was prepared for the implant. He simply had it kept in a cold saline solution, at about 50°F. Kasperak, on a heart-lung machine, was cooled hardly at all. Applying experience gained from years of experimental surgery on animals, Dr. Shumway left in place two quadrantal areas of Kasperak's heart, with venae cavae and pulmonary veins attached-analogous to the distributor...
...painstaking sequence, Dr. Barnard stitched the donor heart in place. First the left-auricle, then the right. He joined the stub of Denise's aorta to Washkansky's, her pulmonary artery to his. Finally, the veins. Assistant surgeons removed the catheters from the implant as Barnard worked...
...Dermatologist Leon Goldman, stressed in a recent issue of the A.M.A. Journal that laserasing surgery is still too untried to be used routinely in the treatment of tattoos. But preliminary results are so promising that the technique may be used to treat soldiers who are literally tattooed when explosions implant tiny fragments and dirt beneath their skins...
...tooth bank," the NIDR Dr. Paul Baer has already nurtured teeth in the yolks of incubating eggs. No one has found a way to transplant teeth from one person to another, but it soon may not be necessary. In 1965, a group of Brown University scientists were able to implant plastic teeth in baboons; the teeth are still firmly rooted, despite constant gnawing on cage bars...