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...main barrier to the transplantation of organs from one human being to another is the immune mechanism by which the body defends itself against invasion by foreign substances. The surgical techniques have been perfected for years, and in the case of kidneys at least, the supply of organs has been sufficient for a total of 1,200 transplants. But some 500 of these have failed, in nearly every case because the immune reaction led to rejection of the transplant. Now new ways are being explored to bypass the barrier; last week specialists in surgery and immunology from all over...
...year survival rate for kidneys from close relatives, reported Dr. Joseph E. Murray of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, is now 70%. For the patients themselves, it is 80%. The difference is due to the fact that some patients survive the failure of an initial transplant with the help of the artificial kidney or a second transplant...
...kidneys removed from cadavers, the corresponding survival figures are 55% and 65%. Astonishingly, the chances of a successful transplant from an unrelated living donor are less than half as good as those for kidneys from unrelated cadavers. Just why, no one knows; perhaps a dying man's kidney loses some of its power to trigger the rejection mechanism...
Progress in transplanting human organs other than the kidney has been disappointingly slow, not only because of rejection reactions but also because of technical difficulties in surgery. Last week surgeons at the University of Minnesota Hospitals in Minneapolis were anxiously watching the progress of the first patient to receive a triple transplant-kidney, pancreas and duodenum...
...reality, MacBird is a mangy little terrier of a satire, nipping at the trouser cuffs of the mighty. Its bark is its bite. Holier than thou in its complacency and self-indulgently assured of how In-funny it is, MacBird is an off-campus transplant of college humor...