Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four years ago, Dr. William Summerlin, then a clinical researcher at Stanford University, startled the scientific world by reporting that he had discovered a way to avoid the reaction that has resulted in the failure of so many transplant operations: the tendency of the body's immune system to destroy foreign tissue. But other scientists were unable to repeat Summerlin's experiments, and skepticism about his results grew steadily. Earlier this spring Summerlin, who had since moved to New York City's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, was accused by colleagues of painting the skin...
...than inbred species as he had claimed. Thus it was genetically compatible with the animal whose skin it had received, and the fact that the graft took was somewhat less than remarkable. The committee also raised questions about Summerlin's interpretation of some of his earliest attempts to transplant skin between humans. In three of five patients Summerlin treated, the graft has since been rejected; in the two others, it appears too early to tell if the new tissue will take...
...head. Regardless of the opposing rulings, Stanford Heart Surgeon Norman Shumway is worried that both cases will discourage the use of assault victims as organ donors. The Flores case, however, will be appealed, leaving it to a higher California court to decide whether a medical determination of death before transplant surgery meets the meticulous requirements of criminal...
A.M.A. Journal by the Renal Transplant Registry, which keeps track of most of the kidney transplants performed throughout the world, reveals that the odds of survival following a transplant are excellent, particularly if the procedure is done in a large medical center that handles 25 or more of the operations a year. The registry checked on 10,357 of the 12,389 transplant operations done between 1951 and the end of 1972; it found that 4,934, or 47.6%, of the patients were alive. In fact, more than 60 of the women had recovered so fully that they had conceived...
John Harnett, an Irish transplant to Villanova, blazed to the individual championship in the record time of 24:00, which eclipsed the old record by three seconds. Hartnett placed third in last year's meet...