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...results: 17% died and 40% of the 288 survivors had surgical complications. Nationwide, the mortality and morbidity rates for heart surgery are, respectively, about 2% and 8%. The kidney transplant ban results from charges of "gross incompetence and negligence" leveled at Chief Kidney Transplant Surgeon Satya Chatterjee by Dr. William Kirby, a former senior resident in urology at U.M.C., and Nurse Kathleen Whittemore, the hospital's former transplant coordinator...
...Three years after planting roots on the corner of Boylston and Memorial Drive, the school has boosted the size of its student body eightfold. A government executive training program sprouted last fall, and has since been nurtured by a $600,000 federal grant. Currently, officials are preparing for the transplant of an urban planing program from the Graduate School of Design (GSD). And the school's increasing number of research centers have yielded several studies that received nationwide attention...
...March 9 Stanford surgeons performed a heart-lung transplant, only the fourth such operation ever and the first since 1971. The patient was Mary Gohlke, 45, a newspaper executive from Mesa, Ariz. She had been suffering from pulmonary hypertension, a condition in which high blood pressure in the vessels of the lungs impairs breathing and eventually damages the heart. Dr. Bruce Reitz and his Stanford team severed the aorta and trachea and cut through the heart's right atrium to remove the heart and lungs. "The whole thing comes out as a package," explains Reitz. Then they replaced...
Gohlke, who is expected to be released from the hospital within the next two weeks, is doing well-walking and taking short trips outside the hospital in a wheelchair. On May 1 Reitz performed another heart-lung transplant, this one on a former undertaker, Charles Walker, 30, who had a congenital heart defect. He too is doing well...
Eyewitness flops as a suspense story, but manages to intrigue with its mix of characters, quirky, offbeat and enjoyable. Writer Steve Tesich and director Peter Yates, the Breaking Away team, transplant their cornfed eccentricities onto the mean streets of New York City. The characters in Breaking Away enchanted with their resilient innocence, their wholesomeness resting naturally in the heart of Indiana. In New York City, the wholesomeness vanishes; the friendly idiosyn-cracies become fatal flaws...