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Even before his implant surgery, Burcham had been experiencing kidney failure, a common complication of advanced heart disease. The stress of the back-to-back operations and the need for multiple transfusions aggravated the problem, and twice last week Burcham had to undergo dialysis. It was during the second treatment...
Though cardiac tamponade is easily recognized in a patient with a normal heart, the presence of the artificial device masked the usual signs. By the time a sudden drop in blood pressure alerted doctors to the danger, said DeVries, lifesaving efforts "were doomed to failure." The surgeon was summoned to...
Burcham's rapid decline and death are the latest in a series of disappointments and unforeseen disasters that have plagued the artificial- heart program. Both Clark and Schroeder, who is now living in a specially equipped apartment across the street from the hospital, suffered serious neurological problems that left them...
As Burcham's death has shown, one of the most vexing problems in implant patients is bleeding. The loss of blood is especially hard to manage, DeVries noted, because patients face the equal and opposite threat of too much clotting. (Blood clots forming in the vicinity of the artificial heart...
The drawbacks of the artificial heart have led many doctors to conclude that the device should be used only as a temporary measure to sustain a patient until a human donor heart can be found. "I'm not sure that it should be considered a permanent transplant," says famed Houston...