Word: spleens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CAPD's secret? The wastes are filtered out not by the kidneys or a man-made substitute, but by another part of the body: the thin membrane lining the abdominal, or peritoneal, cavity and covering the organs that jut into it, including the stomach, liver, spleen and intestines, as well as the kidneys. To make this area accessible, doctors cut a small permanent opening just below the navel, then implant a tube that leads through the peritoneal membrane and into the cavity itself...
YALE at DARTMOUTH--Big Green, big spleen. Yale has the best team in the Ivy League this year, and that's that. And besides, Yale end John Spagnola lives right near me at home and he said he'd beat me up at Thanksgiving if I picked Dartmouth. Yale 35, Dartmouth...
Brown spent Saturday night at Stillman Infirmary, where doctors feared he might have broken ribs or spleen damage. But the diagnosis registered nothing more than bruised ribs, and the senior signalcaller expects to be fine for practice this week...
Though surprisingly little is known about the spleen, a small organ located beneath the left rib cage, it has at least one important function: filtering bacteria and foreign material from the blood. That function makes the spleen particularly important in warding off serious bacterial infections and meningitis in children, who have not yet developed immunity to certain microorganisms. Yet doctors have long been puzzled by the fact that such infections, relatively common in children whose spleens have been removed in the treatment of cancer or blood disease, seldom show up in youngsters whose spleens have ruptured and then been removed...
...Yale team, headed by Pediatrician Howard Pearson, examined 22 patients who had had damaged spleens removed after childhood accidents. Blood tests showed that in 13 of the patients, spleen-like filtering of the blood was apparently continuing, even though their spleens had been removed from one to eight years before the examination. Subsequent radioactive scanning of the abdomens of five of the 13 revealed small nodules of spleen tissue. What had happened, the doctors conclude in the New England Journal of Medicine, was that cells from the ruptured organ spilled out, became implanted in the walls of the abdominal cavity...