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...surgeons are learning how to transplant hearts, the operation seems destined to remain a rarity because donors are scarce and the problem of tissue rejection is still unsolved. Therefore, researchers have been working for more than a decade to develop an implantable artificial heart. Last week, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, the surgical pioneer who performed the first heart transplant in the U.S., moved the effort a significant step forward. In Detroit's Sinai Hospital, he put an artificial heart booster into the chest of Haskell Shanks, 63, whose heart was so weakened that it could not pump enough oxygenated blood...
...operation was hardly the first attempt to use an artificial heart device in humans. Dr. Michael DeBakey has tried temporary pumping mechanisms on eight patients, two of whom are still alive. Kantrowitz has twice installed permanent heart pumps in patients, one of whom survived for 13 days. But last week's operation differed from the previous ones. Kantrowitz's new pump is not only more advanced than earlier assist mechanisms, but because of a specially developed inner coating, it is less likely to trigger the blood-clotting problems that plagued earlier implants. Therefore it has a better chance...
Cigar Shape. Described as a patch booster, the pump is an improved model of the device developed in 1966 by Kantrowitz and his brother Arthur, a physicist. Made of silicone rubber and Dacron, the booster is deceptively simple in construction. Six inches long and shaped like a cigar, it consists of two tubes, a balloon-like outer bladder surrounding a narrow tube, with an air hose that leads from the outer tube to a helium-powered driving unit and compressed air tank outside the body...
...beginning of transplants was not premature. The surgical technique had been worked out years earlier, in animals, by Stanford University's Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr., with Dr. Richard R. Lower, who is now at the Medical College of Virginia. Both Shumway and Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz had their scalpels poised when South Africa...
...meeting of a rather special elite. Eleven of the 16 surgeons who have performed heart transplants gathered last week in Cape Town to consider what they had done, what they should do, and how they could do better. Why Cape Town? Explained Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz: "Chris Barnard has been doing it better than all of us-that's why we are here." Barnard's aura was rivaled by the authority of Houston's Dr. Denton Cooley, who has three surviving patients, including one who is going back to work...