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Although harvesting and storing eardrum tissue is no longer difficult, the transplant procedure remains delicate. Surgeons make an incision behind the recipient's ear and cut away any diseased or damaged portions of the hearing organs before replacing them with the donor tissue.,If only the donor's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Hope for Hearing | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

Because of these anatomical differences, the male operation is the simpler. After injecting a local anesthetic, the surgeon makes an incision about half an inch long on one side of the scrotum, draws out one vas, and cuts out a section up to an inch long. He usually cauterizes the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sterilization for Both Sexes | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

There were many complications. Kasperak had worked in a fume-filled steel mill, had been a heavy smoker and, as a result, his lungs were leathery. They could not exchange enough oxygen to keep him going. So an incision was made in his throat and a tube inserted to supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Michael Kasperak | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

Universal Donor. Though Denise Darvall's heart had stopped beating and she was dead, her heart could not be allowed to degenerate. Irreparable cell damage begins at the temperature of a naturally cooling cadaver in 30 minutes. It can be postponed for two to three hours by cooling. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Ultimate Operation | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

Now, almost four hours after the first incision, history's first transplanted human heart was in place. But it had not been beating since Denise died. Would it work? Barnard stepped back and ordered electrodes placed on each side of the heart and the current (25 watt-seconds) applied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Ultimate Operation | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

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