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Emmanuel Vitria, 62, the world's longest-living heart-transplant patient, celebrating last week's 15th anniversary of his operation in Marseilles: "I think I'll die at 100 years of age, shot by a jealous husband...
DIED. Ashley Bailey, 14 months; of biliary atresia, a liver disease; in Fort Worth. In a July radio address, President Reagan appealed for a liver-transplant donor for Ashley. More than 5,000 phone calls resulted, but no compatible liver could be located for the infant. Reagan's appeal, however, has been credited with finding seven donors for other needy patients...
ACTION TAKEN this past summer by an advisory committee to the NIH offers hope and signals a bureaucratic step in the right direction. The NIH gathered experts from around the world to discuss a possible reclassification of the liver transplant operation. Irv Shapiro, a spokesman for the panel, says that "after extensive review, we concluded that liver transplantation in therapeutic for certain liver diseases." The panel deemed untherapeutic transplants for those with alcohol or drug related liver diseases; those patients make poor candidates for transplants, the panel determined. But for children like Jorie and Brett, the panel concluded that...
...Thomas Strazl, who heads the liver transplant program at the University of Pittsburgh's Health Center, also believes the operation has moved beyond the experimental stages. Strazl has said the first year success rate for children stands at roughly 70 percent and that he thinks the operation "will be a widely used procedure and become competitive in numbers with kidneys in the next three or four years...
...meantime, "The Jorie Hill Von Ohlen Liver Transplant Fund" at a Geneva, Ill, bank stands at $50,000. "The Brett Wethington Fund" has collected $40,000, from town rummage and bake sales, hair-cut-a-thons, pet shows, pancake breakfasts and anonymous donors. Fortunately, according to their mothers, Brett's disease has not yet progressed too far, and Jorie remains in stable condition. She is among the top five on a waiting list at the University of Pittsburgh. Unlike the Minnesota hospital, Pittsburgh's Health Center has told Hill that, when the time comes, only medical and not financial considerations...