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...from 16 months to two years, all four were gravely ill, and the University of Colorado doctors who described their cases were guarded in discussing the children's prospects for recovery. But merely by being alive, all were making medical history. They had survived a complete liver transplant for periods ranging from 45 to 122 days, longer than any previous patient, for whom the record had been 23 days...
...transplanted a human heart. Nonetheless, physicians at the conference heard reports of progress in the transplantation of other human organs. Although measured in mere weeks, one of the most significant reports was that of three successful liver transplants made on three infant girls in Denver. Performed by an imaginative and daring transplant team led by Dr. Thomas Starzl at the University of Colorado Medical Center, all three operations involved the replacement of a diseased liver that was deemed incurable. Until recently, 34 days had been Starzl's record for survival after a liver transplant. Two of Starzl...
Western democracy was centuries in the creating. Teaching its fragile forms and subtle exercises to an alien culture would be a difficult experiment in the best of circumstances. To try to transplant democracy to Viet Nam in the year 1967 would seem a rash and reckless enterprise in the worst of places at the worst of times. Yet this year, South Viet Nam has promulgated a constitution written by a popularly elected Constituent Assembly. Voters in more than 4,000 villages and hamlets have gone to the polls to choose their own local officials. And last week the people...
...dental enamel by ultrasonic vibrations. He hopes to use that method to replace missing teeth and damaged tissues. Working toward the possibility of a "tooth bank," the NIDR Dr. Paul Baer has already nurtured teeth in the yolks of incubating eggs. No one has found a way to transplant teeth from one person to another, but it soon may not be necessary. In 1965, a group of Brown University scientists were able to implant plastic teeth in baboons; the teeth are still firmly rooted, despite constant gnawing on cage bars...
...additional duodenum is not yet connected directly to the digestive tract. It will be hooked into a loop of the small bowel in about a month if the transplant remains healthy. So far, the transplanted kidney has effectively filtered the patient's blood and made urine; the pancreatic-duodenal graft has done its work so well that she has needed no insulin since her surgery...