Word: transplantation
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...Susan Lazarchick, the decision to undergo an experimental knee transplant was frighteningly simple. A benign tumor the size of a grapefruit was rapidly consuming her right knee and shinbone. Doctors had offered her two other options: amputation, or a bone fusion, which would render her stiff-legged for the rest of her life. She chose the rarely performed transplant. Last week Orthopedic Surgeon Richard Schmidt at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia announced that he had transplanted an entire knee -- bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and all -- from an accident victim into the leg of the young...
Sometimes I thought I was in the exploding spaceship or crashing car. I would transplant myself into the reality of the game. It made me work harder...
Grialou sees advantages and disadvantages with her transplant from sunny California to the metropolitan area of Boston...
Ethical complexities are increasing at the start of life as well. Last week Paul Holc, the youngest heart-transplant patient ever, was alive because of how a death-and-life problem was resolved in one case. Nine weeks ago, Canadians Karen, 27, and Fred, 36, learned that their unborn child lacked most of her brain. Called anencephaly, the always fatal malformation occurs in six of 10,000 births. Determined that some good should come from their tragedy, the couple decided to donate their baby's organs...
Answering criticism about the temptation to declare death prematurely, Dr. Calvin Stiller, London's transplant-unit chief, insisted Gabriel's case represented "no slippery slope." Gabriel's parents agreed. "We cried, but we cried with joy," Karen remembers. They went out, ordered champagne and "celebrated Gabriel's contribution to this world...