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...dawning age of the surgical transplant, there seems to be no end to the variety of daring and delicate feats that surgeons are willing to try in the hope of saving patients who would otherwise be doomed by the failure of a vital organ...
...operated on Bingel in August and found cancer of the liver-a cancer that was too big to be cut out, yet so far as the surgeons could tell, one that had not spread. So Bingel was just the right patient to receive the Brigham's first liver transplant. Twice, before Patrolman Callahan was shot, the Brigham surgeons had thought they had a likely donor, but in each case doctors and patient alike were disappointed because the liver proved to be diseased or injured. Now, for a third time, Patient Bingel was wheeled into the operating room and prepared...
...Hour Limit? This was not the first transplant of a human liver. That was done last March in Denver, where surgeons and physicians from the University of Colorado Medical Center and the nearby VA Hospital have pooled their talents in a transplant team. By now the Denver group has done four transplants, with one patient living 22 days after the operation, when he died of pneumonia. The Boston and Denver teams have traded reports of their progress, and their methods are remarkably similar, though they differ in some details...
Denver's Dr. Thomas E. Starzl and William R. Waddell feel strongly that a liver should be hooked up to its new blood supply within two hours of being disconnected from its original host. They have not yet been able to make the transplant as fast as that, and neither did Dr. Moore. But the Callahan-Bingel transplant had an advantage in that the liver had been precooled for 40 hours, which gave its tissues time to adjust to a lower metabolic rate...
...M.G.H. and Brigham doctors were not discouraged. The attempt to save Bingel, helped by a widow's understanding, had been a noteworthy feat of medical and surgical cooperation. It failed, said Dr. Moore, "because all transplant patients face the problem of the organ's getting used to its new host-the host and the liver have to learn to live together." Renewed attempts to teach them to live together were certain to be made soon. Even as Joseph Bingel died, a gathering of transplant experts convened in Washington to figure out improved methods of increasing those chances...