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...open-heart surgeries and two operations to clear his arteries. Four years ago, he was put on a waiting list for a transplant. But early in the morning of Aug. 18, he was bumped to the front of the line. His daughter Patti -- a nursing student who carried an organ-donor card, had communicated to her family her wish to be a donor and even drove a car with a bumper sticker promoting donations -- had been thrown from a car when it hit a rock wall on the Tennessee side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The vacation, said...
...Every organ donation brings with it wrenching questions for the families involved, all of which have to be answered within hours of the death of a loved one. Would the donor really have wanted the organ to leave her body? Would the operation put the life of the recipient at greater risk? In this case, the two families were the same, but there was a deeper implication that was particularly discomforting: Can you take your own child's heart, to feel and hear it beat day after...
While some 2,000 hearts are transplanted each year, last week's operation was apparently unique. "I'm not aware of any cases in which a heart was transplanted from one family member to another," says Joel Newman, spokesman for the United Network for Organ Sharing in Richmond, Virginia, which maintains a nationwide registry of 35,000 requests for organ donations, about 3,000 of them for hearts. "While the odds of this occurring are extremely slim, this puts a human face on a real problem for thousands of people awaiting organs. You can save lives by donating...
...being handled carefully enough. Sabia and several related viruses -- Junin, Machupo and Guanarito in South America and Lassa in Africa, all members of the arenavirus family -- are particularly frightening because they can kill in such a grisly way. Characteristic symptoms are high fever, uncontrolled bleeding in virtually every organ and finally shock. The liver turns yellow and decomposes. Blood can leak from literally every bodily orifice, including the eyes and the pores of the skin...
...long line for someone to provide a heart for the transplant he desperately needed to survive. He finally won a new lease on life last week, but from a singularly tragic source. His daughter Patti, 22, was fatally injured in a car crash, long after signing an organ-donor card, thus allowing surgeons to put her compatible heart in her father's body...