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...year that a two-year-old child had died of brain disease in a San Francisco hospital, she immediately dialed a 24-hour alert number in Pittsburgh. The child's liver was still in good condition but would quickly deteriorate, and Weber, who is director of the Northern California Transplant Bank, had only a few hours to find someone who could use it. The voice she reached at the headquarters of the National Association of Transplant Coor- dinators (NATCO) wasted no time getting to the particulars...
...well before dawn last Wednesday when Dr. Jack Copeland, the leading heart surgeon at Tucson's University Medical Center, had to face the grim truth: his patient was dying. Thomas Creighton, a 33-year-old Arizona auto mechanic, had undergone transplant surgery 24 hours earlier to replace a heart , ravaged by two heart attacks and cardiomyopathy, a progressive disease of the heart muscle. Right from the start there were problems with the transplanted organ, and a pacemaker had to be used. Then Creighton's body began rejecting the heart. At 3 a.m. he went into cardiac arrest...
Friday afternoon, despite Copeland's extraordinary efforts, Creighton died, having survived for eleven hours with an artificial heart and nearly 36 hours with a second human heart transplant. Had he fully regained consciousness, he would have learned that he had made medical history: in the space of four days his life had been sustained by four different hearts (including his own). Throughout the marathon medical battle the big concern was time. When Creighton's heart failed on Wednesday, he was put on a heart-lung machine, a device used to pump and oxygenate blood during heart surgery. The machine could...
...advised him to pipe down. The Budget Director obediently offered only relatively bland testimony last week, but that did not quiet his critics. When he was briefly hospitalized after feeling faint at a dinner party, a cruel gag promptly circulated on Capitol Hill that he had actually undergone a transplant to give him a human heart...
...beginning, the teen-age girl feels doomed by fate, with fair reason. Within the past two years, her mother's patrician parents, who helped raise her in a grand Virginia house, have both died. Then her father is killed in a car accident. Justin's mother must transplant her and her younger brother to a village in upstate New York, to the tidy, stultifying suburban home of Aunt Mona, the late husband's sister. Stunned by her losses and longing for the old days "before everybody started dying," Justin mopes and takes solitary bike rides through this alien Yankee territory...