Word: kantrowitz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Maimonides, fortunately, is one of the world's leading centers for research in artificial heart aids. Last year its heart specialists pioneered in implanting temporary plastic ventricles (TIME, June 3, 1966). This time Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz and his colleagues had a new and simpler idea: to put a balloon in the aorta and make it serve as a pump. The balloon had an added attraction. It does not require major chest surgery on an already weakened patient...
...chamber squeezed the blood out of the Silastic core into the aorta. In the process, it pushed the blood along with much more force than Mrs. Ceraso's enlarged and enfeebled left ventricle could have mustered unaided. To reduce the risk of blood damage or other complications, Dr. Kantrowitz and the hovering cardiologists did not leave the pump running continuously but switched it off every couple of hours...
...equipment is working perfectly," said Dr. Kantrowitz, "and there is evidence that the heart has been helped enormously." Then he added, with due medical caution: "Our definition of success is when Mrs. Ceraso can go home again"-with the artificial half heart still in her chest, disconnected, but with a portable air pump for use as needed...
...operation at Maimonides Hospital that was not publicized. "We chose to study our attempt carefully and analyze the results," said Dr. Kantrowitz...