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Harvard and Boston University Medical School surgeons will help implement a new law this week that represents a major new breakthrough for heart, kidney, and liver transplant cases...
Scarcely more than a day after the transplant, Kasperak began to bleed into his gastrointestinal tract. Evidently the clotting mechanism in his blood had been knocked out by the failure of his liver to produce the necessary enzymes. His platelets (tiny disklike elements in the blood, which are important in clotting) plummeted from a normal count of 250,000 per cu. mm. to 4,000. This required heroic measures. Kasperak had to have blood transfusions, and to remove metabolic wastes from his body the surgeons punched another hole in him-through the abdominal wall, for peritoneal dialysis. This...
...divert attention-and possibly research money-from corrective measures for heart disease in its earlier stages, and ultimately, of course, from prevention. There are already several surgical approaches designed to repair hearts after coronary occlusion but before the damage becomes near-total and irreversible, as it had in the transplant patients...
...Relying on these, two of the Clinic's surgeons, Dr. Donald B. Effler and Dr. Rene Favaloro, have performed 51 operations of a new and promising type. They cut out the diseased segment of the coronary artery itself. Then they replace it with a graft. But unlike the transplant surgeons, Dr. Effler's team has no worry about rejection because it gets the graft material from one of the patient's own saphenous veins (in the thigh). Two of these patients died soon after the operation; the others are doing well, and X rays show that their...
Died. Louis Block, 58, recipient of the world's fifth heart transplant (see MEDICINE...