Word: livers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with progressive heart failure. Because of two heart attacks, one seven years ago and the other two years ago, the burly patient's heart muscle was not getting enough blood through clogged and closed coronary arteries. He also had diabetes, for which he had been getting insulin. His liver was enlarged. Surgeon Barnard's cardiologist colleagues gave "Washy" (as he was known to World War II buddies in North Africa and Italy) only a few months to live. They shortened it to weeks as his body became edematous (swollen with retained water). Washkansky was dying, and knew...
...from 16 months to two years, all four were gravely ill, and the University of Colorado doctors who described their cases were guarded in discussing the children's prospects for recovery. But merely by being alive, all were making medical history. They had survived a complete liver transplant for periods ranging from 45 to 122 days, longer than any previous patient, for whom the record had been 23 days...
Julie Rodriguez, from Pueblo, Colo., had liver cancer, which spread despite surgery and drug and X-ray treatment. On July 23, Dr. Thomas Starzl's University of Colorado transplant team removed her liver and replaced it with one from a child killed in an accident. Julie has since had part of a lung and another tumor removed; she may still have cancer. But, says her mother, "she's a lot happier. She's really 100% better. The future-we don't know. We didn't have any before. But I've had her four...
...children received a cortisone-type hormone to reduce the inflammatory reaction against the transplant; when two showed severe infections, the drug was stopped. All except Carol Macourt have suffered paralysis of the right diaphragm. Three have had severe infections in the transplanted livers. One had to have part of the liver removed; two more still have open drains. Even so, said Surgeon Carl G. Groth, there is evidence that three of the transplanted livers are regenerating...
With the last $4,300 of his Navy winnings, Kauffman founded his own company, sold vitamin tablets and liver shots from the basement of his home. As sales increased, Kauffman also sold seven friends on investing in his struggling firm; each $1,000 of their original investment today is worth...