Word: kidneys
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...world press soon produced far more colorful explanations for Soviet President Yuri Andropov's total disappearance from public life last August: he had been shot by Leonid Brezhnev's son, he was suffering from Parkinson's disease, he had had a stroke, he was recovering?or not recovering?from kidney transplant surgery. What actually happened to Andropov is much less melodramatic and far more logical. Here are the details of his recent medical history, as assembled by TIME from authorities in the U.S. and abroad...
...time of death: 69, seven years beyond the average life expectancy for Soviet males. Andropov had suffered a heart attack about 20 years ago and, like nearly 10% of people over 65, he had diabetes. The combination of cardiovascular disease and diabetes made him a high-risk candidate for kidney trouble, and he was suffering from kidney problems when he assumed power in November 1982. By last February, his kidney function had become so poor that he started treatment on a dialysis machine...
...months, Andropov, president and Communist Party general secretary, had been seriously ill with diabetes, kidney and circulatory problems An official announcement said he died of "heart and vascular insufficiency...
Cyclosporin A was developed four years ago and has been used by a handful of hospitals since then. It was formally approved by the FDA in November, 1983, and has been credited with improved success rates in liver, kidney, and heart transplants...
WASHINGTON--Soviet leader Yuri Andropov underwent a kidney transplant within the last 24 hours and is serlously ill, CBS News reported last night...