Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fellow nurses jostled for their autographs. Much as they obviously enjoyed the limelight, they discussed their experience in cool, shoptalk tones, insisting that a heart transplant is really just another open-heart operation-an area of medicine in which they all are veterans...
...Questions. South Africa's Peggy Jordaan had heard talk of a possible transplant several weeks before the event. "So," she says, "I got hold of a couple of the boys-surgical residents -and asked them a few questions. I wanted to know how the heart might be excised, and then how the new heart would be sutured in place. I also did a bit of reading up in the library." Like the rest of Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard's team, Peggy Jordaan had been on standby for three weeks, and was at home on the memorable Saturday night...
Familiar Routine. It was also a Saturday, but a sunny morning, when Mrs. Ludmila Davis' secretary phoned from Stanford Medical Center: "This place is a mess, and we're doing a heart transplant!" The "mess" meant that surgery was even busier than usual, with 15 operations scheduled; four were still in progress when Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr. began the four-part series to remove the donor's heart and transplant one of her kidneys, and implant her heart in Mike Kasperak's chest...
...prelude to a trial with a human hemophiliac. In most cases the plan is for a normal mother to donate her spleen--which is not usually a vital organ--to her hemophiliac son. The close genetic relationship between mother and son would minimize the difficulty of the transplant...
...risk of the spleen transplant operation is minimal--the same risk that there is in a regular spleen removal, from zero to one per cent...