Word: loma
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After 21 days of battling to preserve a fragile life, Dr. Leonard Bailey was visibly spent. His voice trembled and broke with emotion last Friday as he faced the press at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California to provide the epitaph for the dark-haired infant known as Baby Fae. "Today we grieve the loss of this patient's life," said the 41-year-old heart surgeon. That life, he insisted, had not been in vain. "Infants with heart disease yet to be born will some day soon have the opportunity to live, thanks to the courage of this...
...alien heart. Over the next five days, doctors increased her dosages of the antirejection drugs, supplemented her weakening heart with digitalis, eased the strain on her breathing with a respirator and resumed intravenous feeding. By Wednesday of last week Surgeon David Hinshaw told a packed auditorium of reporters at Loma Linda that "she is in the process of turning around. Signs of rejection are reversing right down the line. Baby Fae is holding...
According to her hospital roommate, Teresa is a tall, thin, outgoing blond and a heavy smoker who worried about her daughter. The newborn was transferred to the Loma Linda medical center, a Seventh-day Adventist institution with an excellent reputation in pediatric cardiology. Doctors there explained to Teresa that the baby would probably die within a few days and that she could either leave her at the hospital or take her home. Raedel tearfully told the Los Angeles Times that after a sleepless vigil, "watching her to make sure she was breathing," they took the child home...
Bailey says he had consulted the parents of Baby Fae and "completely informed them of all other possibilities to save their child's life." And the Loma Linda Ethics Board, made-up of citizens and doctors, reviewed and gave approval to the operation, says spokesperson Baker...
Georga says to her knowledge no such forum took place at Loma Linda. "No such novel operation should happen in a suprise manner as it did there," she says...