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...through the final stages of cardiomyopathy, a progressive weakening of the heart muscle that inevitably leads to congestive heart failure. The only permanent cure for cardiomyopathy is replacement of the heart, but at 61 he was eleven years over the usual age limit agreed upon by surgeons for a transplant...
...Kennedy's preferred site had been cleared by MBTA officials who spent some $53 million to transplant their repair and storage yards from where they had stood for about 50 years. But just when it appeared construction would soon be beginning, a group of Cambridge residents, worried that the library would bring more tourists, scholars, and cars into a already-congested Harvard Square, launched an all-out battle against the building...
Distraught parents and relatives have to resort to publicity because of an acute shortage of organs for transplants. Less than 1% of all Americans die under circumstances and at ages that leave their organs viable for transplant, and not all of these organs become available. Transplant surgeons bitterly complain that doctors have little interest in "harvesting" organs from their brain-dead patients. Last year thousands of Americans died while waiting for kidney transplants. At Stanford University Medical Center, about one out of three candidates for a heart transplant dies before a suitable heart becomes available. At New York...
...Transplant surgeons therefore are often grateful for the power of the press. Says Frank Veith, head of Montefiore's transplant team: "Only the media can get the message out." Scholars of medical ethics, however, are disturbed by the role the media can play in determining which patients live or die. "I wouldn't recommend it as a way to run a culture," says Dr. John Fletcher, assistant director of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, "but the trend seems to be that whoever gets the most publicity gets to live." After the Fiskes' example, there...
...skills to find their own donor, and the donor's family specified that the liver of their child should go to Jamie, and Jamie alone. Once the organ was made available, doctors did use the A.M.A. guidelines. There were four babies at Pittsburgh equally suited to the transplant, but none had a greater need than Jamie. In addition, doctors at Pittsburgh were already busy with a liver transplant and could not handle a second one. "If another child had been in greater need, we would have had a dilemma," says Jamie's surgeon, Dr. John Najarian. "I would...