Word: schuur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 46, South African surgeon who in 1967 rose to fame by performing the first successful human heart transplant; by Aletta Gertruida Barnard, 45, a former nurse at Groote Schuur Hospital; on grounds of technical desertion; after 21 years of marriage, two children; in Cape Town, South Africa. Though Barnard obviously enjoyed his celebrity status, his wife was less impressed. "I've got a home to run," she said at one point, "whether we are famous...
Blood Exchange. With all this in mind, the South Africans confronted the case of Mrs. Mary Voogt, a 29-year-old nurse and mother of two children who was brought to Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital last July in a deep coma. Only a few days before, she had suffered a miscarriage. Early in her pregnancy, she had contracted severe hepatitis, and it left her liver badly damaged. Doctors tried seven blood exchanges, giving her body an entirely new supply of blood each time. Yet there was no noticeable improvement, and finally they turned in desperation...
Equalizing the Flow. Unlike previous work with pig organs, Groote Schuur's procedure involved not only the animal's liver but its entire circulatory system, heart and all. And the doctors did not kill the animal first. To prepare the baboon, a robust 57-lb. male, they put it under an anesthetic, then replaced its entire blood supply with human blood of the same type as Mrs. Voogt's. Nearly five hours later, after the animal's heartbeat and circulation had stabilized, the baboon was ready for the hookup with Mrs. Voogt. The surgeons deftly...
Look, if a guy wants to exercise his lungs by belting out a few bars of his favorite tune, who's to complain? Certainly not the staffers at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, when a rousing version of Hello, Dolly! wafted out of the sterile isolation room housing Dr. Philip Blaiberq, 59. Blaiberg, who used Brahms' Lullaby for exercise after his January heart transplant, has been hospitalized for the past two months with a lung complication coupled with hepatitis. Critical and near death for a time, he is now bouncing merrily along the road...
Those 30 pills included antacids and vitamins and, more important, digitalis to strengthen the action of his new heart and two drugs to suppress the immune mechanism by which Blaiberg's body might reject the graft: azathioprine (Imuran) and the hormone prednisone. The doctors at Groote Schuur Hos pital were cautiously reducing the doses of immunosuppressives-his moonfaced appearance was a sign of cortisonism-and they hoped soon to be able to cut down his checkup visits to one a week. Blaiberg was writing a diary for daily newspaper syndication, and his wife Eileen, fresh from a crash course...