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Mickey Mantle is back at Baylor University Medical Center, being treated for some signs of liver rejection. Doctors are giving him strong doses of steroids to combat his immune system's rejectionof the new organ.The reaction occurs in about 65 percent of liver transplant recipients, officials say, and drug treatment usually takes care of the problem...
Doctors say Mickey Mantle is doing "remarkably well" after undergoing a second operation to stop bleeding around his newly transplanted liver . A hospital spokeswoman said such bleeding sometimes occurs in transplant cases and does not mean the body is rejecting the organ, which seems to be functioning well. Mantle, who was expected to be out of bed and moving around a bit by the end of the day, remains at Baylor Medical Center in critical but stable condition and could return home in two to three weeks...
Mickey Mantle is recovering from liver transplant surgeryearly this morning. Theformer Yankee great, 63, received the organ just two days after doctors at Baylor University hospital decided that his advanced liver cancer, complicated by hepatitis, would soon kill him otherwise. Physicians insisted that Mantle's age and deteriorating condition -- not his fame -- put him at the top on the waiting list when they found a new liver Wednesday night. "A lot of people were suspicious of this--last night we'd heard it could be three or four weeks, and now today he has the new liver," says TIME Dallas...
...persistent shortage of organs from human donors has motivated some researchers to reconsider the possibility of transplants from animals. In the U.S. alone, there are 40,000 people on the national transplant waiting list and only 5,000 donors a year. As a result, about one-fifth of the people who need a heart transplant, for example, die before one becomes available...
There are several more complications to clear away before surgeons can start stitching pig hearts into people. For one thing, viruses that normally attack only swine might literally piggyback a ride into people during transplant surgery, leading to new diseases in humans. Yet transplant doctors are optimistic that such technical obstacles can be surmounted. Then it will be up to the patients to decide how they feel about having a pig's heart beating in their breast. --Reported by Alice Park/ New York