Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treating patients with transplants, doctors have been teetering on a precarious seesaw. They must use drugs enough to suppress the immune mechanism and spare the kidney, but not in such strong dosages as to let the patient die from any passing infection. The drugs used, mainly azathioprine (Imuran) and prednisone, are so highly potent that by themselves they can seriously weaken or help to kill a patient. A major factor in boosting the cure rate in the past two years, said Dr. Murray, has been a steady reduction in the dosage of azathioprine. The researchers gathered at Duke were seeking...
...lymph duct just above the collarbone. The lymph drains out by gravity into a plastic bag. With good drainage, up to 32 billion cells are removed daily, for as long as four months. They are separated from the lymph fluid by centrifuge, and the fluid is reinfused into the patient through an arm vein. With a well-drained lymph system, said Dr. Murray, rejection crises are only half as common as formerly...
Progress in transplanting human organs other than the kidney has been disappointingly slow, not only because of rejection reactions but also because of technical difficulties in surgery. Last week surgeons at the University of Minnesota Hospitals in Minneapolis were anxiously watching the progress of the first patient to receive a triple transplant-kidney, pancreas and duodenum...
...year-old woman was a victim of a "brittle" and "malignant" form of diabetes that develops in early life and eventually damages nearly all the body's arteries, including those supplying the kidneys. In this case, the patient's kidneys had already failed, and she was being kept alive by dialysis. Her pancreas was functioning poorly. The doctors were equally concerned about the working of her duodenum, a source of little-understood hormones...
...hospital from the effects of a stroke. Dr. William D. Kelly and Dr. Richard C. Lillehei already had permission to remove the organs they needed. They took out the conjoined pancreas and duodenum as a unit and also took a kidney. They implanted the kidney near the patient's right groin. Then, instead of replacing her own pancreas and duodenum with the graft, they left her digestive tract intact and implanted the entire new unit in the left iliac fossa, just above the groin. It is hooked up to her arteries and veins, so it spills its hormones into...