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...Technique. A fatal mugging provided one. Jackson Gunya, 28, died after neurosurgeons found his brain injury irreparable. Barnard was ready for the six-hour operation that centered on a new technique. First, Herbert's chest was opened, he was put on the heart-lung machine, and his heart was removed -all but part of the left auricle (upper chamber). Next, Barnard removed each lung, leaving most of the patient's bronchi (the two main branches from the windpipe). These were clamped. Then the surgeon closed off the stumps of the pulmonary veins attached to the left auricle...
...short. These were stitched to Herbert's bronchi. The venae cavae, the great veins that return blood to the heart's upper right chamber, were connected, as in an ordinary heart transplant. In like fashion, the aorta was hooked up. It all went "without a hitch," said Barnard...
Evading the Noose. While his patient fought for life, Barnard was fighting critics. Heart transplants, with their low level of survival, arouse skepticism among many specialists. To try both heart and lungs seems foolish to much of the medical profession. In Britain and France last week, Barnard was attacked for taking undue risks...
...interview with TIME, he replied: "Barnard never takes the risk. The patient always takes the risk. Of course I'm taking a risk in that if I fail, it may hurt my reputation, but that has never ruled my judgment...
...resentment of South African physicians who will not refer patients for transplants because the chance of success is so slender. He acknowledged that organ rejection by the body was still an obstacle, but argued that "because a problem is not completely solved" is no reason to abandon a procedure. Barnard compared a patient doomed to die of heart disease with a man on the scaffold, the noose already around his neck: "Now you say to him, we won't hang you. You can stand 200 yards away and we'll get a man to fire one bullet...