Word: transplanters
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...himself trying to save the life of a woman who had lost one kidney and was perilously close to losing the other one. He leaded with Jacobs to aid him again in a desperate attempt to save her. If Jacobs could find a baboon, they would try an unusual transplant operation. Jacobs found one, and had it sent down...
...basement when pumps failed, finally reached a level of H in. Police, firemen and volunteers rushed dry ice to hospitals to keep stored blood from spoiling, sent generators to those that needed them, rigged electrical heart-pacer machines to auxiliary power, and hand-pumped iron lungs. A delicate corneal transplant, a five-hour craniotomy, and a caesarean section were performed under light from makeshift sources; five dozen babies were delivered...
...three responded well to the first and second. Dr. Eiseman now believes that if pig-liver perfusions can be prolonged to 24 hours, they may be of real help in crises for hepatitis patients and cirrhosis victims who still have a little liver function remaining, and also for transplant recipients immediately after surgery if liver transplants ever become practicable...
Still, the deed was done. Was it justified? Mecklin thinks not. "A coup d'etat in such circumstances," he writes, "was desperate surgery. The odds against success were comparable with, say, a kidney transplant." And indeed the graft didn't take. Diem's successors proved unable to halt the "relentless deterioration, confirming in dreary succession all the black predictions of those who had opposed the coup...
Although the fact that the unpromising transplant worked so well seems to be a result of the donor's cancer, the possibility remains that in this case the recipient had an inborn weakness of the rejection system. The doctors are now checking that possibility too. But they are fascinated by the idea that organs from cancer patients may be surprisingly suitable for transplants...