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Junior Ed Vena, the starting defensive left tackle injured in the Northeastern game, will play Saturday but he may not be at full strength. Tom Mesereau, his sophomore replacement, has at least temporarily quit the team...
...Vena has a strained tendon an a bruised leg, and he has been hobbling in practice. "But he's a tough boy," his roommate said. "He never missed a game in high school...
...SITUATION is a little better at tackle. Mark Steiner, a starter as a sophomore last year, will hold down one slot, and there'll be a fight among sophomores Tom Mesereau, Bruce Wood and Ed Vena for the other. The position should be a strong one by mid-season, barring injuries...
Bypassed Duct. After the incisions were made, the real technical difficulties began. Moore and his chief assistant, Dr. Alan Birtch, clamped off the portal vein, which delivers blood to the liver for chemical processing, and the inferior vena cava. The hepatic artery, which delivers blood for the liver's own oxygen needs, was so damaged by pressure from the cancer as to be useless. Moore and Birtch decided to use in its place the right kidney artery. That meant removing the right kidney, but a single healthy kidney is all the body needs...
...most of nature's errors. Even so, Surgeon Frank Gerbode was in for a surprise. When he opened her chest to make connections for routing her circulation through a heart-lung machine, instead of finding two great veins returning used blood to the heart, he discovered an extra vena cava...