Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treating patients with transplants, doctors have been teetering on a precarious seesaw. They must use drugs enough to suppress the immune mechanism and spare the kidney, but not in such strong dosages as to let the patient die from any passing infection. The drugs used, mainly azathioprine (Imuran) and prednisone, are so highly potent that by themselves they can seriously weaken or help to kill a patient. A major factor in boosting the cure rate in the past two years, said Dr. Murray, has been a steady reduction in the dosage of azathioprine. The researchers gathered at Duke were seeking...
Progress in transplanting human organs other than the kidney has been disappointingly slow, not only because of rejection reactions but also because of technical difficulties in surgery. Last week surgeons at the University of Minnesota Hospitals in Minneapolis were anxiously watching the progress of the first patient to receive a triple transplant-kidney, pancreas and duodenum...
...Year's Eve, another woman died at the hospital from the effects of a stroke. Dr. William D. Kelly and Dr. Richard C. Lillehei already had permission to remove the organs they needed. They took out the conjoined pancreas and duodenum as a unit and also took a kidney. They implanted the kidney near the patient's right groin. Then, instead of replacing her own pancreas and duodenum with the graft, they left her digestive tract intact and implanted the entire new unit in the left iliac fossa, just above the groin. It is hooked...
...additional duodenum is not yet connected directly to the digestive tract. It will be hooked into a loop of the small bowel in about a month if the transplant remains healthy. So far, the transplanted kidney has effectively filtered the patient's blood and made urine; the pancreatic-duodenal graft has done its work so well that she has needed no insulin since her surgery...
Died. Dave Dreyer, 72, Tin Pan Alley composer who made his fame in the 1930s by writing such toe-tapping tunes as Cecilia, Me and My Shadow, Back in Your Own Back Yard; of a kidney disease; in Manhattan...