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...sends the fluid through the kidneys at a natural pulse rate and under normal blood pressures. Once through, the fluid drops from the veins and ureter into a catch basin for recirculation. Along the way, it is reoxygenated and purified, and chilled to reduce still further the likelihood of organ deterioration. When the machine is trundled from the room in which the kidney was removed to the recipient's operating theater, the pump works on a battery without interruption. Dr. Belzer has done four transplants with machine-preserved kidneys, one of which was on the circuit for 17 hours...
...organ, dimly at first, begins to play a soft, floating melody. Then the drums pick up, and the bass quickly joins in with a muffled, steady beat. Finally, a fellow in a red-striped T-shirt, smiling but otherwise motionless, steps to the microphone, and, about as pleasantly as a human being can make a sound, begins to follow the organ with his voice. The lyrics are simple: "lalalalalalalala." But the meaning is clear...
...organ plays a circus tune...
Medical experts have long suspected that organs donated by cancer victims might cause danger-and possibly death -to their recipients. Still, for lack of other available transplant sources, they continued using them. Last week, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, a kidney transplant team at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital told how cancer can be transplanted along with a donated organ. At the same time, they provided new, clear-cut evidence that cancer, like a foreign organ, can also be rejected...
...seeing "the Prof," as she calls Barnard, carrying in the donor heart, in a stainless-steel pan. When he removed Louis Washkansky's heart, Barnard put this in a pan and handed it to Nurse Jordaan. This moment had no emotional impact. The heart seemed like just another organ to be sent to the pathology department-but in this case, the next stop was the hospital museum...