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...mother's lung to her dying 12-year-old daughter. The girl, born prematurely, had long suffered from severe scarring of the lung. She had perhaps a year to live. Dr. Vaughn Starnes, who performed the operation, says the mother, 46, should not notice the loss of one lobe of a lung. The lobe is expected to expand to fill the space in the daughter's chest created by the removal of the child's right lung...
Characteristically, Atwater is going all out against this latest adversary. He opted last week to undergo a specialized treatment, in which tubes containing massive doses of radioactive isotopes were implanted directly into the tumor in the right lobe of his brain. After five days, the tubes were removed, and Atwater was expected to return home this week. In three months, doctors will test the results...
...hour procedure, the surgeons removed the fist-size left lobe from 29-year-old Teresa Smith's liver and transplanted most of it into her daughter. The revolutionary technique -- transplanting a liver from a living donor -- had been performed in Brazil, Australia and Japan, but this was the first time it was tried in the U.S. Doctors have had a great deal of success in kidney, pancreas and bone-marrow transplants from living donors, and hope is rising that the liver will join that list. Says Dr. Christoph Broelsch, who led the Chicago transplant team: "This surgery potentially opens...
...more obvious than usual since it is smack in the middle of my face, or to be more precise, it's slightly right of center (an odd fact considering that I consider myself quite a bit left of center; but I already have five holes in my left ear lobe--another affectation I'll get to later--so I need my right nostril to balance out my face, if not my politics...
...Rose Cipollone had the upper lobe of her lung cut out. She still continued to smoke. Doesn't that suggest some kind of a dependence...