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While Surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard was visiting the U.S. during Christmas week, he got reports from Cape Town that the patient next in line for a transplant, Philip Blaiberg, 58, was getting weaker. Several coronary occlusions had compelled Blaiberg to give up his practice as a dentist and caused irreparable damage to his heart, which was steadily failing. On Dr. Barnard's return, the transplant team at Groote Schuur Hospital was ready. So was Blaiberg, who insisted that he wanted the next transplant even when Barnard told him of Washkansky's death. But where would the heart come...
...disks was noted, and compared with those already obtained from Blaiberg's cells. The cells, concluded Pathologist Martinus C. Botha, were a fairly good match. Not identical-that is impossible-but similar enough to suggest that Blaiberg's rejection mechanism would not react too strongly against a transplant...
...deepening coma. When Haupt's heart stopped, it was Dr. Hoffenberg who certified that he was legally dead. That came at 10:35 a.m. Tuesday. One group of surgeons began to remove Haupt's heart. In the operating room where Washkansky had received his transplant other surgeons had Patient Blaiberg almost ready...
...Warned by experience that they might have overtreated Patient Washkansky, the doctors were giving Blaiberg fewer immunosuppressive drugs and in smaller doses. "Perhaps we treated the last patient too early for rejection," Dr. Barnard said. "We are not going to make the same mistake again." Four days after the transplant, the doctors could see no sign of either infection or a rejection reaction. Blaiberg's condition was better than Washkansky's had been at the same stage, with good circulation and all organ functions returning toward normal. He was eating well, and making small talk. Said Barnard...
Last week the irresistible force was at least slowed down. The project was an NBC documentary advertised as "Dr. Barnard's Heart Transplant Operations." Immediately after the Washkansky operation last month, Mrs. Jarvis set about gathering material for a program to be pegged to the next such event. She shot biographical background footage on Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, interviewed his friends and medical colleagues, and filmed Barnard and his team as they performed open-heart surgery. She also discussed with Barnard the technical problems of covering the next heart-transplant operation, and came away with the impression that he would...