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Since the pancreas manufactures insulin essential for the utilization of sugar and other carbohydrates, the patients most likely to need a transplanted pancreas are victims of the severe juvenile form of diabetes. The pancreas, said Minneapolis' Dr. Richard C. Lillehei, is so inaccessible that it is the only major organ that is harder to get out of the donor than to put into the recipient. He has made three grafts of an entire pancreas, with the patient surviving 41 months in the most successful case. Be cause all three died of infection rather than rejection of the graft, Lillehei...
...concentrate have been made 1,000 times more potent than plasma. Eventually, Brinkhous is confident, this will become the standard AHF, so safe and stable that hemophilia victims will be able to carry it around and inject it themselves, into muscle, just as diabetics now do with insulin...
...failing pancreas, Teixeira simply stitched the new organ, donated by a heart-attack victim, to his patient's duodenum-snugly against the old one. At the first sign of rejection, says Teixeira, he will simply snip the implant out and Rios will be back where he started-on insulin...
...Named for the doctor who accidentally helped to open the door to research in brain chemistry in 1928 by discovering that overdoses of insulin can drastically alter the course of some mental illnesses...
...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 to live. They shortened it to weeks as his body became edematous (swollen with retained water). Washkansky was dying...