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...weeks, and months, and even years, surgical teams at more than 20 medical centers around the world have been standing ready to make the first transplant of a heart from one human being to another. What they have been waiting for is the simultaneous arrival of two patients with compatible blood types-one doomed to die of some disease that has not involved his heart, and a second doomed to die of incurable, irreversible heart disease...
Last week, in two hospitals separated by almost 8,000 miles of Atlantic Ocean, the historic juxtaposition happened and the heart transplants were performed. The physicians who performed them thus reached the surgical equivalent of Mount Everest, followed automatically by the medical equivalent of the problem of how to get down-in other words, how to keep the patient and transplant alive...
...Cape Town, South Africa, had a more enduring success. Their patient, a 55-year-old man, was feeding himself and making small talk a week after his epochal surgery. At this time, as expected, there appeared the first signs of a tendency by his body to reject the transplant, but the doctors were confident that they could control this reaction...
Julie Rodriguez, from Pueblo, Colo., had liver cancer, which spread despite surgery and drug and X-ray treatment. On July 23, Dr. Thomas Starzl's University of Colorado transplant team removed her liver and replaced it with one from a child killed in an accident. Julie has since had part of a lung and another tumor removed; she may still have cancer. But, says her mother, "she's a lot happier. She's really 100% better. The future-we don't know. We didn't have any before. But I've had her four...
...children received a cortisone-type hormone to reduce the inflammatory reaction against the transplant; when two showed severe infections, the drug was stopped. All except Carol Macourt have suffered paralysis of the right diaphragm. Three have had severe infections in the transplanted livers. One had to have part of the liver removed; two more still have open drains. Even so, said Surgeon Carl G. Groth, there is evidence that three of the transplanted livers are regenerating...