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Like most South Africans, regardless of color and social status, Clive Haupt was stirred by Louis Washkansky's heart transplant. When Washkansky died, Garment Worker Haupt, 24, said to a neighbor: "I hope the next transplant succeeds." If the statement was obvious and unremarkable then, it soon gained poignancy. For the next transplant involved Haupt's own heart...
...future episode for The 21st Century, and began this week with a second full hour for NBC. Sandwiched in was a respects-paying call on President Johnson at the LBJ Ranch. For his CBS debut, Barnard was flanked by the two surgeons most prominently identified with artificial hearts and transplantation: Houston's Dr. Michael E. DeBakey and Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz. He also faced two expert interrogators: Newsman Martin Agronsky and Science Editor Earl Ubell. If anyone showed strain it was Dr. Kantrowitz - understandably, because his transplantation of a heart into a 19-day-old infant...
...raised many questions. Was it, asked Agronsky, just a surgical spectacular? On the contrary, said Barnard, medicine today is developing methods that offer curative treatment instead of palliation for hundreds of thousands of patients suffering a lingering death. What, asked Ubell, persuaded Barnard that no treatment short of a transplant would be effective in Washkansky's case? For answer, Barnard showed a screen-filling photograph of Washkansky's original heart, so damaged by the growth of fibrous tissue that only about one-tenth of the muscle in its main pumping chamber was working properly...
...deterioration from shortage of blood and oxygen. After Washkansky received Denise Darvall's heart, these organs improved enormously. One thing that his 30-man team learned from Washkansky's case, said Barnard, is that the recipient's body is less prone to reject a heart transplant than a kidney, so future patients will not be so heavily dosed with drugs to suppress the immune reaction. That means less danger of infection and more hope of lasting success...
After Washkansky died, the man who had made the transplant possible was despondent. Said Edward Darvall: "There was at least part of my daughter alive, and now it's all gone. I feel empty." (In fact, one of her kidneys, transplanted to Jonathan Van Wyk, 10, was still working well.) Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, whose own heart-transplant operation had failed two weeks earlier, expressed his sorrow, then added: "However, I believe that the operation performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard represents a great step forward...