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...back operations and the need for multiple transfusions aggravated the problem, and twice last week Burcham had to undergo dialysis. It was during the second treatment on Wednesday afternoon that a nurse, listening to Burcham's chest with a stethoscope, noticed that his breathing was labored in the left lung. X rays showed that a large amount of fluid had collected in his chest. Doctors later learned that the fluid was blood that had congealed into a jelly-like glob and was pressing against the upper left chamber of Burcham's natural heart (the Jarvik-7 actually replaces only...
There is little doubt that Iraq still possesses stockpiles of chemical weapons-- and none at all that mustard gas had severely injured the Iranians taken to Western Europe. Doctors treating the men reported burns and blisters of the skin, lung lesions that inhibit breathing, and chemical traces of the gas in body fluids. Said Burn Specialist Max von Karlmann of the Isar Right- Bank Clinic in Munich: "The clinical picture shows clear evidence of injury inflicted by mustard...
...case of first come, first served. Vaughn arrived in Tucson at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 3 1/2 hours ahead of the Utah team. By then, Creighton had been on the heart-lung machine for nearly six hours. Says Vaughn, the choice was clear: "Either we try the artificial heart or we turn off the machine and tell Creighton's mother that her son is dead." After three hours of surgery, the pump was in place...
...Phoenix heart sustained Creighton long enough for another human heart to be found and implanted. But it soon became clear that the ten hours he had spent on a heart-lung machine had taken their toll. As a result of blood- vessel damage, fluid had accumulated in his lungs, causing a buildup of pressure on the right side of his new heart that ultimately proved fatal...
...tables appeared before California Judge Ira Brown at the start of what could be an 18-month megatrial. At issue is who should bear the cost of asbestos-related lawsuits; 25,000 of them have been filed against some 30 companies, mostly by former workers ill with cancer and lung disease associated with breathing in asbestos fibers. In the San Francisco case, five former asbestos manufacturers--the largest being the Manville Corp.--are suing 65 insurance companies, each of which cites various reasons why its policies do not cover the asbestos claims. Manville has already settled with...