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Faced with a person who has lost a finger in an accident, most surgeons do little more than sew up the stump -though in some cases they may transplant one of the patient's own fingers, especially to replace a thumb. Russia's Dr. Viktor Kalnberz goes much further...
...question of when to "pull the plug" and let death occur has acquired new urgency with the practice of transplanting kidneys and other vital organs. Transplant surgeons want organs as fresh as possible; the chance that a cadaver kidney will work well in the recipient patient is vastly increased if it can be removed immediately after circulation has stopped. But in the U.S., as in most countries, it would be illegal to remove a kidney from a patient who has not yet been pronounced dead...
...third technique ready to try. At St. Vincent Charity Hospital he had recently set up a bank of human heart valves removed from accident victims and waiting to be used in an ingenious manner developed by his associate, Dr. Akio Suzuki. Because mitral valves have proved unsatisfactory for transplants, Dr. Kay selected an aortic valve from the bank, turned it upside down so that it would permit blood flow in the proper direction, and stitched it in place. There was little danger of transplant rejection, because heart-valve tissue has a negligible blood supply. Last week, two months after...
Died. Harry T. Griffith, 63, Pennsylvania sales engineer who suffered from bone cancer and, in hopes of stimulating disease-stopping antibodies, took part in a dramatic double-transplant operation (TIME, March 11) in which he traded tumorous tissue with a Tucson insur ance salesman afflicted with the same malignancy; of bone cancer with complications; in Philadelphia...
CACTUS FLOWER. This French transplant, nurtured by Director Abe Burrows, thrives on Gallic sex humor and farcical romance. Lauren Bacall as a spinster turned siren is as stingingly funny as she is decorative...