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...surgeons made rapid advances in heart treatments. But they struggled to perform operations that lasted longer than four minutes, because the interruption in circulation caused brain damage. That changed in 1953, when Dr. John Gibbon Jr. of Philadelphia used a heart-lung respirator to keep an 18-year-old patient alive for 27 minutes while he repaired a hole in her heart, paving the way for open-heart surgeries to enter widespread use. (See pictures of the Cleveland Clinic's smarter approach to health care...
...sewing the heart of a young woman killed in a car accident into the chest of a middle-aged man. After nearly four hours of surgery, a single jolt of electricity started it beating. "Christ," Barnard said. "It's going to work." And for a while, it did. The patient survived the operation, but the immunosuppressant drugs used to keep his body from rejecting the new organ weakened him. Eighteen days after the operation, he succumbed to pneumonia. (See Dr. Christiaan Barnard on the Dec. 15, 1967, cover of TIME...
Still, the fleeting success made Barnard an overnight sensation and inspired surgeons around the world to try their hands at working the same miracle. Within two years, more than 60 teams had replaced ailing hearts in some 150 patients. But keeping a patient's immune system from turning on the new organ often required large doses of immunosuppressant drugs that left patients vulnerable to deadly infections. Eighty percent of transplant recipients died within a year. Surgeons grew discouraged; by 1970, the number of transplants had plunged to 18, down from 100 just two years earlier. (See TIME's Wellness blog...
Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for The English Patient, poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje, delivered the fall Morris Gray Lecture yesterday to students and the general public, a break from tradition for the semi-annual lecture series’ tendency to host poets exclusively, English Department members said...
Ondaatje is best known for his novel “The English Patient,” which was adapted into an Academy-Award winning film...