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Simple & Safe. Last week Drs. Dotter and Gensini told the Radiological Society of North America that steel-string and steel-spring techniques can be readily used to guide tubes into the left side of the heart itself-into the left ventricle, which pumps fresh blood to the entire body.* Pioneered in Sweden and France, the method has been adopted by Dr. Dotter in the hope of replacing techniques that, says he, were neither "simple, safe, nor reliable...
...heard of his plight and undertook to care for him. Her aim: major surgery, for permanent correction of Phillip's physical defects. For almost two years, no hospital would risk it because of court fights over Phillip's custody. But armed at last with full adoption papers affirmed by the state Supreme Court, Mrs. Culpepper took her adopted boy to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. There, during the summer, surgeons removed the nonfunctioning "left" kidney from Phillip Culpepper's right side...
...there, late last month, surgeons finished the job of correcting nature's errors. They freed Phillip's windpipe from a useless connection with his stomach, made a continuous passage from mouth, through throat and gullet, to stomach. After intravenous feeding during convalescence (and almost three years of being fed liquids through a tube), Phillip Culpepper demanded an egg. Last week he got it-fried, "over easy." Far from wealthy (her husband is a journeyman plumber), Mrs. Culpepper had gambled $1,000 in legal expenses and $2,000 in medical bills to give the boy a chance for normal...
...blood into human patients weakened by too generous bloodletting. Since they had never heard of such things as protein compatibility, it is small wonder that most patients died. In 1678 the French Parliament banned transfusions. Nowadays, no doctor would dream of transfusing animal blood to man. But last week, the medical world was again agog over a report that Italian physicians had used a sheep's blood to help clear the system of a woman dying of mercury poisoning...
...London's medical journal Lancet, Professors Michele Pavone-Macaluso and Antonino Anello described the case. Last winter a 34-year-old housewife bent on suicide swallowed bichloride of mercury. After eleven days, her system still could not flush out the poison. So with tubes from a vein and artery in one arm, the doctors hooked her up to an artificial kidney. But instead of letting her blood circulate through cellophane tubing in a chemical bath, and relying on the solution to remove the poisons, they wheeled a donor into the treatment room. The donor: a 130-lb. ewe, heavily...