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Ever since the first heart transplant last December, the timing of such operations has been a source of much medical dispute. But few transplants are likely to trigger the controversy that surrounded the 17th, performed in Brazil at Sao Paulo's Hospital das Clinicas last week by Heart Surgeon Euriclides de Jesus Zerbini...
Chances of survival with a new heart are slim, but the odds against a lung transplant are unknown. Only three whole-human -lung transplants are known to have been attempted in medical history, and the longest any of the patients survived was 18 days. Despite the minimal experience and maximal risk, a team of ten doctors and ten assistants made a fourth try at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary last week. The team was headed by Scotland's Dr. Andrew Logan, a pioneer in heart-valve surgery. The patient: 15-year-old Alex Smith of the Isle of Lewis...
Cooley is a demon for speed. In his first heart transplant, he performed the actual implantation of the donor organ in Everett C. Thomas' chest in 31 min. His second, for Recipient James B. Cobb, took 42 min. Cooley's third transplant, which took about 30 min., raised a legal question. The heart came from Clarence Nicks, 32, who died after being beaten in a barroom brawl. Nicks showed no brain-wave activity and had had no reflexes for hours before his doctors shut off the machine that had been oxygenating the blood in his lungs. There...
...Cooley's three patients, Thomas continued to make good progress a week after his transplant; Stuckwish, at week's end, was still battling for life. Cobb died 2½ days after the operation, of obscure causes. But it was certainly not because his new heart had failed. It was in such good condition, said Cooley, that he would have transplanted it to a second patient if a suitable recipient had been available...
Joseph Rizor, 40, a carpenter from Salinas, Calif., became the second heart-transplant subject for Stanford University's pioneering Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr. The victim of three heart attacks within seven years, Rizor had been longing for a transplant since he heard of Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard's first operation in Cape Town last December. "At first," says his wife Eileen, "I was shocked by the idea. But time and the knowledge of how desperately my husband wanted the operation made me realize that it might be his only chance to live." When a brain-injured donor...