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...soon as the operation was finished, Mayo-trained Dr. Gilbert phoned Dr. Richard Wilson of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a pioneer transplant center.* With Wilson's help, a supply of Imuran, an anti-rejection drug, was flown to Guayaquil. Luna was given a dose of X rays to further halt the process by which the human body normally rejects foreign organisms, whatever their origin...
...sailor named Julio Luna Vera, 32, was brought into Ecuador's Clinica Guayaquil with a right hand so shattered by a grenade explosion that amputation was necessary. Dr. Roberto Gilbert Elizalde, 47, who had never done any transplant work, decided to try. He put a tourniquet on Luna's arm and cooled it with cracked ice. He had a donor: a 43-year-old laborer-also named Luna-who lay dying of internal hemorrhage in another Guayaquil hospital where his family gave permission for the transplant...
Surgeons at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson last week performed history's first recorded transplant of a heart into a human being. At first they refused to identify either donor or recipient, but later announced that the heart had come from a chimpanzee. In a three-hour operation, it had been transplanted into a man dying of irreversible heart disease. It beat for an hour, but proved too small, and the recipient died. In the fast-growing record of transplants, the initial failure was not nearly so significant as the fact that the surgeons' skills...
...week's end, the famed Denver transplant team put a baboon's kidneys in the flank of a 40-year-old man. His condition: "Satisfactory...
...twelve-man team of physicians and surgeons headed by Dr. Keith Reemtsma emphasized that the Davis transplant is no science-fiction spectacular. Said Dr. Reemtsma: "We have taken every precaution with this transplant. Even if it should now fail, we could still defend its use ethically and medically." One factor that gives this operation a better chance of success than the woman's is that her transplant, from a 25-lb. monkey, had small capacity. But even if they functioned at only 50% efficiency, the 80-lb. Adam's kidneys would still be capable of clearing the blood...