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Harrison simply did not fit in at Harvard. He built a nine-year NBA career on toughness and a winning program while coach at Kenyon College on discipline and grueling workouts, but he could not transplant this attitude to Cambridge...
Much of the glamor has rubbed off heart-transplant surgery since Dr. Christiaan Barnard's historic operation eight years ago this week in Cape Town. Discouraged by the generally low survival rate of patients, many of the surgeons who performed the early heart transplants have now abandoned the technique. There is one notable exception: Dr. Norman E. Shumway of Stanford University School of Medicine, the man who developed the technique used by Barnard. Shumway, 52, is allergic to publicity but recently broke a three-year silence on his transplant record. At a meeting of the American Heart Association...
Shumway's 33 surviving transplant patients* owe their lives to several innovative changes in postoperative care. The Stanford doctors routinely administer drugs that stimulate the heart for the first few days after the transplant. Explains Dr. Edward B. Stinson, head of the surgery team: "We noticed that a transplanted heart functions at a lower than normal rate of output right after surgery." The Stanford group also routinely performs heart biopsies after surgery, looking for any clinical clue that the body's immune system may be rejecting the new heart. By slipping a biopsy catheter into the right ventricle...
Word of the remarkable transplant record at Stanford has spread through the medical world. The group has already received requests for advice and information from teams of cardiologists in England and Russia. Says Stinson: "Around the world there is a serious renaissance of interest in heart transplants...
...many fathers suffer heart attacks shortly after a grown son or daughter leaves home. His hypothesis: the child may have functioned as a buffer for parental conflict. Psychologist Dina Fleischer of Richmond's Medical College of Virginia reports on the family of a man who had a heart transplant in 1968: when the patient was near death, the family functioned well; when he recovered, the family unraveled; whenever he relapsed, the family functioned well again...