Word: livers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What's more, Barnard disclosed, this heart had been working so poorly that for weeks Washkansky's other organs -notably the liver and even the brain -had shown signs of deterioration from shortage of blood and oxygen. After Washkansky received Denise Darvall's heart, these organs improved enormously. One thing that his 30-man team learned from Washkansky's case, said Barnard, is that the recipient's body is less prone to reject a heart transplant than a kidney, so future patients will not be so heavily dosed with drugs to suppress the immune reaction...
...vitamin D-enriched foods; of a heart attack; in Madison, Wis. In 1924, Steenbock discovered that vitamin D could be "activated" with ultraviolet rays from a quartz-vapor lamp, quickly treated milk and other foods to provide the first new source of the rickets-preventing "sun vitamin" since cod-liver oil. His patents could have made him wealthy, but instead he helped set up a foundation to handle royalties, which netted $10,000,000 for the university before a federal court in 1945 ruled his discovery too broad for patent protection...
...stand a quarter-mile trundle to the regular radiation treatment center. At week's end, when his white-blood-cell count rose, the doctors still had more drugs in reserve to beat back the rejection mechanism, and they stepped up his cobalt-60 treatments. Washkansky's liver shrank to nearer normal size; Denise's heart and his kidneys worked so well together that he lost 20 Ibs. of edema fluid...
...live on one, that means he has one to spare. The corpses of healthy people killed in accidents provide two. So although the demand still far exceeds the supply, the kidney transplanter's problem is minor compared with that of the surgeon who would transplant a liver. Each man has only one, and cannot live without it. The 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...
...newspaper L'Osservatore Romano noted last week that "the heart is a physiological organ and its function is purely mechanical." In fact, the heart is nothing more than a pump. There is no more soul or personality in a heart than in a slice of calf's liver...