Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Face the World. Barnard's biography conveys something of the real drama of medicine and particularly of the drama of his first heart transplant. The patient, Louis Washkansky, was a sprightly, funny, thorny man, furious at his helplessness and cheerfully willing to put his heart in Barnard's hands. The book captures both the spirit of this crotchety victim and the excitement of that extraordinary operation -even though the prose, at key moments, tends to overflow like a sliced-open artery...
...past, hospital authorities would have had to negotiate with the patient's next of kin to obtain organs for transplant, and the organs might have deteriorated and become unusable before permission was obtained. There was no such delay at the Utah hospital. Informed by the patient's wife about the donor card, surgeons were able to operate on him as soon as he was pronounced legally dead.* They removed both kidneys for transplant and both eyes for cornea grafts. Within a few hours, one of each was used for transplants in other patients...
...certification made by physicians who are not involved in any possible transplant...
...reason may be Russell's age: Blaiberg was 58 when he received his new heart; Russell will be only 45 this week. Also, Blaiberg's heart disease was of long standing and had damaged other major organ systems before the transplant, but Russell's heart attacks, in 1962 and 1965, had caused no such widespread difficulties. Finally, in 1968, Indianapolis Cardiologist Robert Chevalier diagnosed heart disease of such severity that only a new heart could give Russell a chance for survival. He referred Russell to Surgeon Richard Lower at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Lower...
Beyond mere survival, Russell has set another noteworthy record for heart-transplant recipients. None of the others has worked so strenuously at his old job-and taken on other tasks besides. Russell, a skilled carpenter who teaches industrial arts at a boys' junior high, repaired the roof of his two-story house ten months after his operation. He keeps busy on remodeling jobs or making furniture-except when he is touring the countryside to give speeches about his heart transplant. Last month Russell, who has two children living at home, found room in his new heart for still another...