Word: transplant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern medical technology has made the definition and determination of death increasingly complex, the transplant era has made both problems increasingly urgent. Virtually every physician and surgeon in the world wants to have his say. When the World Medical Association met in Sydney last week, 212 members from 28 nations debated the issues. They eventually adopted a tentative guideline document, the Declaration of Sydney, subject to detailed reconsideration next year. Simultaneously, a committee of 13 top-ranking Harvard professors proclaimed their code in the Journal of the A.M.A...
...Harvard group and the Sydney assembly agreed that it is best to have at least two physicians share the responsibility of determining death. And if there is any prospect of a transplant, those physicians must not be members of the transplant team. On the need for this division of authority, Sir Leonard Mallen said: "Doctors must never be in a position where it could be said that a donor was murdered to obtain an organ for a transplant...
...complain? Certainly not the staffers at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, when a rousing version of Hello, Dolly! wafted out of the sterile isolation room housing Dr. Philip Blaiberq, 59. Blaiberg, who used Brahms' Lullaby for exercise after his January heart transplant, has been hospitalized for the past two months with a lung complication coupled with hepatitis. Critical and near death for a time, he is now bouncing merrily along the road to recovery, enough so that wife Eileen, taking her own cue from Dolly, could say enthusiastically: "It'll be good to have...
...Children's Hospital, across the street from the Brigham, a twelve-year-old boy died June 17 from head injuries suffered in an auto accident. His parents, who refuse to be identified, consented to the transplant. While three surgeons removed and cooled the liver to retard deterioration, Dr. Francis D. Moore (TIME cover, May 3, 1963) and his Brigham team prepared Tommy Gorence to receive it. It was, says Moore, "a very arduous job because of the whopping size of Tommy's liver." Just to get at it entailed making three heroic incisions, two horizontal and one vertical...
Less Suppression. Denver, where the first such operation was performed in March 1963 by the University of Colorado's Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, remains the liver-transplant capital of the world, with six recipients surviving. The early operations five years ago, says Starzl, were tragic. Although surgeons were sure that the procedure would work, the longest survival among the first patients was 23 days. In most cases, death resulted from infection, to which the patients were especially susceptible because of generous use of drugs to suppress the mechanism by which the body rejects foreign protein...