Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stopped, and two surgical teams went to work. Temporarily kept warm by artificially circulated blood, then quickly sutured into place, the new heart began beating immediately without the usual electrical shock. "Silence," said Zerbini, as a murmur of astonishment swept the room, and he proceeded to sew up his patient's chest...
...before the Sao Paulo transplant, Rio de Janeiro's Dr. Edson Teixeira implanted a pancreas in diabetic, ex-soccer-star -turned -government-official Arari Charbel Rios, 28. Rather than remove Rios' failing pancreas, Teixeira simply stitched the new organ, donated by a heart-attack victim, to his patient's duodenum-snugly against the old one. At the first sign of rejection, says Teixeira, he will simply snip the implant out and Rios will be back where he started-on insulin...
...Edinburgh, 15-year-old Alex Smith, Europe's first lung-transplant patient, died last week. Doctors at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary had told the boy's father that the new lung would require at least twelve days to establish itself. Before it could, young Smith's remaining lung, also damaged by swallowed weed killer that prompted the transplant, collapsed...
...took for granted the middle-class values of his father, a proud, patient jeweler who is "the best watchmaker in the San Fernando Valley." At school, Brian was "the kind of kid who would run and tell the teacher if I saw another kid starting a fire with a magnifying glass...
...Lahti's patients went to his office after a few days for removal of stitches, but there were only two hospital readmissions for minor complications. "There has been," says Dr. Lahti with evident relief, "a surprising lack of telephone calls although each patient is advised to call at any time if he has any questions or problems...