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Although Drummond quickly recovered almost complete use of his right hand and the ability to speak clearly, the stroke left him "depressed and frustrated" and forced his doctors to speed up the transplant timetable. Rather than wait for Drummond to build up his strength for the second operation, as had originally been planned, they decided to perform the transplant as soon as a suitable donor organ became available. That happened at week's end, when doctors obtained and transplanted a heart from a 19-year-old Texas motorcycle accident victim...
Drummond became a candidate for a transplant in August after a rare viral infection irreversibly damaged his heart. Admitted to the Tucson center two weeks ago, he was classified as a "9," which meant he required a transplant within 48 hours. Two days later a heart had still not been found, and Copeland recalls, "he looked like a piece of yellow paste. We felt he was going to die within hours." Unless a donor heart could be found, Drummond's only chance for survival was a temporary Jarvik...
...drawbacks of the artificial heart have led many doctors to conclude that the device should be used only as a temporary measure to sustain a patient until a human donor heart can be found. "I'm not sure that it should be considered a permanent transplant," says famed Houston Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey...
Still, few physicians are openly critical of the implants; many point out that pioneering efforts in open-heart surgery and human heart transplants also met with many disappointments and failures. "This is a new technical endeavor, and naturally it is going to be fraught with complications," observes Dr. Floyd Loop, chief of cardiac surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Loop is confident that "with a few more cases" DeVries and his colleagues will learn to control problems like bleeding. Transplant Surgeon Philip Oyer of Stanford concurs. Says he: "This is not the time to say stop...
Because of that short telephone conversation, Weber was able to locate a child in Minnesota who needed a liver-transplant operation. Even more remarkable, however, is the fact that the operator who took Weber's call was a machine. In fact, the NATCO alert line is run entirely by a computer that can both talk and listen...