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...patients in his tiny rural hospital outside Curitiba, in the south of Brazil. Many of them were dying of congestive heart failure, which caused their hearts to weaken and enlarge. Because he lacked the resources necessary for the standard American treatments for the disease--drug therapy and heart transplant--Batista needed to come up with a different solution. The one he finally adopted appears to be a relatively simple procedure, but it has shaken the world of cardiac surgery and offered new hope to people suffering from congestive heart failure. Batista's radical concept: Since the diseased heart...
Neither of the standard therapies for congestive heart failure--drugs and heart transplant--has proved particularly effective. Medications such as ace inhibitors keep the body's blood pressure down, making it easier for a weakened heart to circulate blood, but they do not fix the organ. In late-stage heart failure, the only option is a heart transplant. But while as many as 50,000 people in the U.S. alone need a heart transplant, only 2,500 transplants are performed there each year. Heart transplants have proved quite effective, with mortality rates of only 20% after a year...
McCarthy has been more cautious than Batista and more research oriented. He picks only patients who are healthy enough to be on the transplant list, so that if the procedure does not work they can be put on a left-ventricular assist device, or artificial pump, until a suitable donor can be found. "We've had a 72% success rate with the procedure," says McCarthy. "If you look at all the people who die just waiting for a heart transplant, those odds are pretty good...
Christine A. Zimmerman '01 saw her father go through a bone marrow transplant last year. She said when she saw posters advertising the drive she felt like she owed something back...
Entering the summer, the 1997 season held the promise of a dreamier ending, namely another Ivy title run through the NCAA tournament. Now, with First Team All-America forward Emily Stauffer taking the year off following a bone marrow transplant to her brother, Matt, who has leukemia (see full story in Friday's Crimson), this team's challenge is to prove that last season was not a one-woman show...