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...renal artery bypass...
...almost accidental discovery was made after doctors at Memorial had all but given up hope for a patient dying of renal failure. The vaunted artificial kidney could no longer clear the poisons from his blood, and only a transplant offered any hope. But the only kidney available was far from promising. The donor had type A blood while the kidney patient had type O. Worse, the donor's kidney was infected and was about to be removed because it was draining improperly. It had already been physically damaged by obstruction resulting from cancer of the colon...
...problems-religious, renal, linguistic-that so agonizing- divide India, Untouchability is perhaps the most massive. Reviled, for thousands of years, as a people whose ch contaminates, the Untouchables upied the absolute bottom of a solemnely which perfected the arts of soc elevation and degradation. Today, both men and women called Scheduled state by the government, called Hari- (children of God) by many follow- of Gandhi, called simply ex-Untouchables by Isaacs, are still at the bottom. There are 65 million of them-one Indian in seven...
...vitamin D does no harm. But in unpredictable cases, any excess over normal requirements causes unnatural calcium deposition in the fetus: its bones, especially the base of the skull, grow unusually dense, and chalky deposits narrow the aorta. Sometimes the aorta is narrowed around the origin of the renal arteries so that the kidneys are starved of blood and the affected baby suffers from extremely high blood pressure...
...illness and death. Most patients recover, but each year in the U.S. 45,000 die of insufficient kidney function. Dr. E. Hugh Luckey, physician-in-chief at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, cited this somber statistic as introduction to a pair of hour-long seminars on renal diseases broadcast by New York's educational WNYC-TV Channel 31. Sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine, the programs gave general practitioners and internists the latest word on diagnosis and treatment-much of it new knowledge gained since most of them got out of medical school...