Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report on one of the more vexing problems facing surgeons involved in the transplantation of the kidney in man--the question of the joining of arterial and venous blood vessels--was offered recently by Dr. George T. Smith of the Harvard Medical School at the 57th annual meeting of the American Urological Association...
...Smith's study was undertaken to determine whether certain pathological patterns observed microscopically in kidney transplants could be explained on the basis of abnormal blood flow. The individual joining together of all venous and arterial vessels in the course of a kidney transplant, he noted, placed a number of vessels is close proximity and increased the likelihood of stretching and kinking which, he said "may dispose to thrombosis...
Speakers include Dr. T. Hastings Wilson, associate professor of Physiology, who will discuss "Amine Acid Absorption by the Intestine:" Dr. Arthur K. Solomen, associate professor of Biophysics. "The Biophysics of Ion and Water Transport in the Kidney Tubule;" and Dr. Guide Majno, associate professor of Pathology, "The Mechanism of Vascular Leakage in Inflammation...
Died. Guy Wiggins, 78, rearguard landscape painter and National Academician, whose gay limning of snowstorms and hansom cabs held its charm-especially as a favorite of Sunday Painter Dwight D. Eisenhower-long past the representational heyday; of kidney disease; in St. Augustine...
...less critical kidney patients, Harvard Physician John P. Merrill and his colleagues at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital have devised a bold and ingenious technique: a miniature plastic "manhole"' permanently implanted in the abdominal wall...