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Vild said that $132,000 can cover, with money to spare, the entire cost of a bone marrow transplant...
...Cyclosporine, which is better known as a treatment for organ-transplant patients, may help people with severe inflammation of the colon. Most of the patients in a small drug trial improved so much that they did not have to have their colon removed...
Born with a malfunctioning liver, Benny underwent his first transplant at age 8. For five years, he took a drug called cyclosporin that prevented his body from rejecting the alien organ. When that medicine no longer worked, his doctors at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh performed a second transplant in 1992 and started him on what was then an experimental treatment called FK506. Given his long experience, he was probably better prepared than most people for the pain and discomfort antirejection drugs can sometimes cause. He had already outlived most of the children he had met in the hospital while...
Nevertheless, in the view of transplant experts, Benny had made a mistake. In some cases transplant patients can be weaned from their antirejection drugs, but it must be done under close medical supervision so doctors can intervene at the earliest sign of trouble. If Benny had bided his time, say doctors, he might have had a happier relationship with the transplanted organ. "The longer you have an organ, particularly the liver, the more it becomes a part of you, and you a part of it," says Dr. Andrew Klein, a liver- transplant specialist at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Transplant surgeons...
Tzakis has not given up hope that Benny may still change his mind. Several transplant recipients have volunteered to talk to the boy. But after a week spent dealing with lawyers and turning away phone calls from Nightline, People and other national media, Benny seemed weary. "Just tell them," he said, "I want to be left alone...