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Saving the Bleeders. In another series of experiments on animals, a Boston City Hospital team sponsored by the Harvard Medical School reported the possibility of spleen transplantation to save the lives of hemophilia victims. Hemophiliacs suffer from the lack of a blood-clotting substance called AHF. As a result, an otherwise manageable cut can become a source of quick death. At present, when a severe onset of hemorrhaging occurs, hemophilia victims can be saved from bleeding to death by injections of AHF extracted and concentrated from a healthy person's blood. But the process is costly, and the relief...
...their defeat, the Arabs found a scapegoat in the U.S., but they also vented their spleen on their Kremlin friends. "The balance of terror," complained the Algiers daily El Moudjahid, has prompted the Russians to "put the preservation of peace before every other consideration" and to relegate their "support for the liberation movements to second place." Even East Germany's Walter Ulbricht was alarmed over Moscow's refusal to risk war. "The nuclear balance between the Soviet Union and the United States," he said, "is to be used as an excuse to start wars of aggression just below the nuclear...
...liver, there mature into flukes that migrate to the small veins of the bowel, where the female lays innumerable eggs every day, sometimes for years. Many eggs are swept into the liver and other organs. They cause irritation and scarring in the liver (which leads to enlargement of the spleen), intestinal damage, bleeding from the esophagus, stunting of growth, anemia and blood in the urine. Though surgery to remove the spleen gives the patient some relief, it does not eliminate the flukes, which go right on laying eggs...
...Dose of Emetic. Now, Cornell University's Dr. B. H. Kean, a specialist in tropical medicine, and Surgeon Edward I. Goldsmith have devised a method to remove most of the flukes. The two reasoned that when a patient is cut open to have his spleen removed, he might as well be rid of the flukes at the same time. They designed a system of tubes to pipe the blood from the vein entering the patient's liver, pumping it through a filter, and returning it to a vein in the leg (see diagram). In order to lure...
...There was a large laceration of his scalp and injury to his brain," reported Surgeon James C. Drye of Louisville. "His right lung was torn and there was a fair amount of blood in his chest. His spleen was ruptured and bleeding. There were about three quarts of blood in his abdomen. His left leg was almost amputated. His pelvis was fractured. He was not hit by an artillery shell in Viet Nam, as one might think from the extent of his injuries. He was wounded while riding a motorbike on the streets of our community...