Word: livers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young Colorado mother was getting along well last week although her liver had been replaced by one taken from a dead man. A boy of twelve was living a normal life in his Pueblo, Colo., home with his mother's spleen inside him, while his mother went about her chores with no spleen at all. A couple of lung transplants have been tried, and though the patients died, there will soon be others...
Precise Timing. The latest liver surgery in Denver involved the deathwatch and precise timing that are a common feature of homotransplants. Housewife Jeanine Goodfellow, 29, of Arvada, arrived at the University of Colorado Medical Center in September with cancer of the liver so advanced that her only real hope of life lay in taking the long chance of becoming the first human being to survive with a transplanted liver...
Across the street at Denver's VA Hospital, a man was admitted for accidental gunshot wounds, and when it became clear that he could not survive, relatives gave permission for the use of his liver in a transplant. As the prospective donor's life ebbed, Surgeon Thomas E. Starzl opened Mrs. Goodfellow's abdomen to get her ready for a quick transplant. This operation took ten hours. Her liver was so enlarged by disease that instead of a normal 4 Ibs. it weighed closer to 20 Ibs. Dr. Starzl left his patient anesthetized, with her liver "just...
...general practitioner who operates a medical center near City Hall, also speaks for the anti-fluoridationists, but is not affiliated with any organization. Claiming that fluoride ("a poison more deadly than arsenic") can have deleterious effects on the nervous system, the circulatory system, the bones, the thyroid gland, the liver, the kidneys, and the heart, Brusch bases much of his argument on the difficulty of regulating one's daily intake of the chemical...
...rose eluded Edith Piaf. Her greatest love, Boxer Marcel Cerdan, was killed in a plane crash in 1949, and her first marriage ended in divorce. Four separate automobile accidents all but crushed her frail body, and she was racked with ulcers, jaundice, arthritis, and cirrhosis of the liver. She took to drugs and young men, married her second husband, Hairdresser Théo Sarapo, 25, only last year, when she was 46. Each misfortune marred her voice but only seemed to give new poignancy to her artistry. Despite doctors' warnings, the nearly crippled singer insisted on going on tour...