Word: spleening
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Asseyev is in "satisfactory condition," according to the Cambridge City Hospital, but is still on the danger list. He suffered a ruptured spleen and a severe scalp cut during his fall when he struck the limb of a tree. The doctor who removed the spleen in an operation Friday reported that Asseyev "has a very strong will to live...
...young Colorado mother was getting along well last week although her liver had been replaced by one taken from a dead man. A boy of twelve was living a normal life in his Pueblo, Colo., home with his mother's spleen inside him, while his mother went about her chores with no spleen at all. A couple of lung transplants have been tried, and though the patients died, there will soon be others...
...Starzl's Denver team also performed the spleen transplant between mother and son. The boy, Richard Hill, suffered from a shortage of gamma globulin in his blood, leaving him virtually defenseless against infectious diseases. This shortage arose largely from the failure of his spleen to produce enough of the antibodies that make up an important fraction of gamma globulin. The boy's mother, Mrs. Jacqueline Carver, had a good supply of gamma globulin, and her lymphatic system would maintain it. She could get along without her spleen far better than her son. The operations were performed in June...
Died. Edith Piaf, 47, France's premiere chanteuse and petite (4 ft. 10 in., 90 lbs.) "sparrow of the streets"; of a hemorrhage of the spleen; in Paris (see THE WORLD...
...University of Colorado team headed by Dr. William R. Waddell also takes out both diseased kidneys first. But the Denver surgeons go farther: they remove the recipient's thymus and spleen as well, on the theory that these glands are headquarters for rejection mechanisms. The Denver group has made seven non-twin transplants in five months, and guardedly reports that so far, all the recipients but one are doing well...