Word: donor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heart to be stopped during the delicate operation. Only then did Barnard discover how desperate his condition had been: "His left ventricle was nothing but a bag of fibrous tissue." Barnard cut away 45% of this diseased heart muscle, partly to make room for the implant. He placed the donor heart piggyback on Taylor's own, left side to left side, and cut silver-dollar-size holes in the left atrium (upper chamber) of each. Then he stitched the two hearts together and shunted the aorta from the donor heart into Taylor's aorta...
...rationale was clear: oxygenated blood from the lungs would flow naturally into the patient's left atrium, and some from there to his repaired left ventricle for. pumping to the rest of his body. Some would also flow into the donor heart's left atrium and its left ventricle, where the child's young, muscular pumping chamber would give the patient's heart a boost. No artificial pacemakers were used, so the two hearts kept beating at their own rates; the child donor's, without connections to the nervous system, pulsed faster than the patient...
What Sakowitz does offer the doting donor is lessons in earthier arts that are certain to make the recipient the cocktail-party one-upsman (or woman) of 1975. How many of the gang, for example, will be able to boast of a day's skiing with coaching by Jean-Claude Killy at Val d'Isere, France (for a mere $4,325, not including travel and accommodations)? For the price of an airline ticket to California, plus board and meals, plus $115,000, the gift recipient can take ten private swimming lessons with Mark Spitz. Want...
...donor, rather than the recipient, must, in most cases, pay a federal tax on gifts in excess...
...arrive in mid-June. They could transform the dusty Sahel into a muddy bog, making vehicle traffic impossible. FAO officials had hoped that most of this year's aid would be prepositioned in remote regions by June. However, red tape and a lack of urgency by the donor countries made shipments late. Most of the grains should have arrived at African ports by March, but only 266,000 tons had been received by April. An additional 170,500 tons arrived last month, and 333,000 tons are still due. Even without local inefficiencies, it now will be difficult...