Word: lillehei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Memorial's medical director, Dr. Edward Beattie, called on New York Hospital's surgeon-in-chief, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, to send for the organs that his staff could use. While the body was perfused with oxygenated blood to ward off tissue degeneration, Lillehei's assistants removed the eyes for fresh-cornea transplants, both kidneys and the heart, and rushed them by underground tunnels to waiting surgery teams. Within a few hours, the Lillehei group had transplanted the heart (into a 36-year-old man), both kidneys and one cornea-the second cornea a day later...
Since the pancreas manufactures insulin essential for the utilization of sugar and other carbohydrates, the patients most likely to need a transplanted pancreas are victims of the severe juvenile form of diabetes. The pancreas, said Minneapolis' Dr. Richard C. Lillehei, is so inaccessible that it is the only major organ that is harder to get out of the donor than to put into the recipient. He has made three grafts of an entire pancreas, with the patient surviving 41 months in the most successful case. Be cause all three died of infection rather than rejection of the graft, Lillehei...
...world's pioneer in transplanting livers, Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Colorado, has obtained 15 so far, with encouraging results in four recent operations on little girls (TIME, Dec. 1). Comparable problems of supply confront the University of Minnesota's Dr. Richard C. Lillehei, who has transplanted the pancreas with duodenum attached, and an almost complete intestinal tract...
Other People's Cigarettes. Shumway and Lillehei, like many of today's foremost surgeons and professors of surgery, absorbed much of what they know of the technique and exploratory spirit of their calling from the University of Minnesota's great (and lately retired, at 68) Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen. So did Christiaan Barnard, who was at Minnesota in 1953-1955. Barnard, the son of a Dutch Reformed minister, had always wanted to be a doctor. His father, on a cash income of $56 a month, gave three of his four sons a university education...
Last New 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...