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...last he was ready to install the transplant. It had been tailored to fit, with the bronchi cut short. These were stitched to Herbert's bronchi. The venae cavae, the great veins that return blood to the heart's upper right chamber, were connected, as in an ordinary heart transplant. In like fashion, the aorta was hooked up. It all went "without a hitch," said Barnard...
...reason. Most of the 500,000-plus Americans who die each year of heart disease suffer from atherosclerosis, the buildup of hard, fatty deposits that narrow the coronary arteries and cut off the flow of oxygenated blood to the heart muscles. Only revascularization, which is simpler and safer than transplant surgery, offers many patients a chance for survival...
...surgeon all that he needs to know and feels that some conditions must be observed more thoroughly to be properly evaluated. As a result, Johnson operates on many patients whom the Cleveland crew would reject as unfit. But Stanford's Dr. Norman Shumway Jr., inventor of the heart-transplant technique, has reservations about his colleagues' methods. He believes that mammary implants, which may take months to improve ventricular circulation, are impractical. Instead he combines bypass grafts with the gas endarterectomies in what his operating team calls a "gas and pass" procedure...
...thinking is the fact that suicides decrease in wartime and other periods demanding personal sacrifice; then, he says, "the intensity of egoism and anomie is diminished as the individual participates in a common social goal." To put his theory into practice, Blachly proposes an alliance between organ-transplant centers and some of the many suicide-prevention services that are now in existence. The services, which usually offer psychiatric help to callers, would refer appropriate cases to transplant centers as possible donors. The customary two-or three-month waiting period before surgery would give psychiatrists time to study the would...
...even be possible to use the body's immunological mechanism, which now helps to protect it against other diseases, to combat cancer. Some researchers note that organ transplant recipients, who take large doses of drugs to suppress their immune reactions and prevent the rejection of foreign tissue, may develop cancer. Also, the immune system often fails to respond to many cancer cells, although they have unique antigens that should alert the body to their presence. Accordingly, doctors have begun exploring ways of beefing up the body's defenses and immunizing man against cancer in the same way that...