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...started, some of them found breathing so difficult that all physical activity was an arduous chore. But during the gradual exercise buildup, they all showed improvement. Their hearts now function more efficiently. Work has become easier, and their bodies require less oxygen for a given task, presumably because their lung tissue has been stimulated to greater efficiency. Bass does not recommend his treatment for all of the 400,000 Americans troubled by emphysema, many of whom have other serious disorders. His patients, however, have no such compunctions. Like 74-year-old Dudley Pell, who was on the verge of quitting...
...miles a day to build themselves into racing form. Soon they are competing in club aquacades against others their own age in hopes of winning an A.A.U. badge and national recognition. By the time they are twelve, today's swimmers are accomplished veterans, harder of limb, sounder of lung and infinitely faster than their predecessors...
Significantly, the heart received least attention from the thanatologists. Both the difficulty and the urgency of their task resulted largely from the fact that a heart-lung machine can keep major parts of a body "alive" long after effective death. The long-held notion that death can be pinpointed in time, four or five minutes after heart action and breathing have stopped, is erroneous, said Cleveland's Dr. Charles L. Hudson, principal U.S. delegate in Sydney...
Look, if a guy wants to exercise his lungs by belting out a few bars of his favorite tune, who's to complain? Certainly not the staffers at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, when a rousing version of Hello, Dolly! wafted out of the sterile isolation room housing Dr. Philip Blaiberq, 59. Blaiberg, who used Brahms' Lullaby for exercise after his January heart transplant, has been hospitalized for the past two months with a lung complication coupled with hepatitis. Critical and near death for a time, he is now bouncing merrily along the road...
...duodenum, allowing the bile to bypass the common duct. The entire operation took eight hours. Not until Tommy Gorence was sitting up and eating well, apparently making a good recovery, did the Brigham publicize the case. Tommy made good progress for four weeks, then ran into difficulties with a lung infection, a common complication of transplants...