Word: transplant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good Tissue Match. Last week surgeons were astonished to learn that in the grimy Belgian city of Ghent (pop. 235,000), a lung transplant had been performed in utmost secrecy more than three months ago and the recipient was still doing well. Alois Vereecken, 23, a metalworker, received the lung from an unidentified donor on Nov. 14 at the hands of a five-man surgery team headed by Professor Fritz Derom. Patient Vereecken had developed severe silicosis in both lungs...
...lung transplant was disclosed almost incidentally during a buzz of excitement over another Ghent operation, believed to be the world's first transplant of a larynx. Jean-Baptiste Borremans,-62, a rural policeman, had been complaining for a year of discomfort in his throat, and he became progressively more gravel-voiced. While he was under observation at the University Clinic, says Mme. Borremans, "the doctors decided to operate, but there was no question of a transplant. It was the morning after the operation when I went with our two grown children to see him that I was told Jean...
...Ghent surgery team headed by Professor Paul Kluyskens would say only that Borremans' larynx had to be removed, his complaint was almost certainly cancer. Knowing that many laryngectomy patients fail to learn esophageal speech, Kluyskens decided that a new larynx would offer Borremans a great advantage. If the transplant took, he should be able to speak almost normally, although in a monotone...
Some U.S. physicians questioned whether the larynx transplant was ethical. It exposed Borremans to additional surgical hazards, not to mention the perils of immunosuppressive drugs. All that was necessary, in their view, was a simple laryngectomy...
...member (pipe and three-piece suit), who up until this week had handled advertising for such entertainment businesses as the Charles Playhouse and Sack Theatres, the number of small residence theatres in Boston has more than tripled since BAD began publishing. And when the Craft Experimental Theatre was playing Transplant, given a negative review by BAD, Martin Kravitz, the theatre's owner, said that for the next four weeks attendance dropped off about 80 per cent...