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...murdered Dr. David Gunn as a circuit-riding doctor for several abortion clinics in northern Florida, he realized he needed a vest. But instead of buying, he wore one constructed of manufacturer's scraps. Sometimes he worried that it was too short. "If they get me in the liver, that's pretty tough to patch," he told a reporter last February. Apparently he assumed that his assailant, aiming from a prudent distance in hopes of a clean getaway, would go for the largest target, the torso...
After two liver transplants, a Florida boy says "Enough...
Born with a malfunctioning liver, Benny underwent his first transplant at age 8. For five years, he took a drug called cyclosporin that prevented his body from rejecting the alien organ. When that medicine no longer worked, his doctors at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh performed a second transplant in 1992 and started him on what was then an experimental treatment called FK506. Given his long experience, he was probably better prepared than most people for the pain and discomfort antirejection drugs can sometimes cause. He had already outlived most of the children he had met in the hospital while...
...their antirejection drugs, but it must be done under close medical supervision so doctors can intervene at the earliest sign of trouble. If Benny had bided his time, say doctors, he might have had a happier relationship with the transplanted organ. "The longer you have an organ, particularly the liver, the more it becomes a part of you, and you a part of it," says Dr. Andrew Klein, a liver- transplant specialist at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Transplant surgeons admit they are among the most aggressive at trying to keep death at bay. "Considering the severe shortage of donor organs...
...most people it seemed the sad but certain end to the saga of the Lakeberg Siamese twins. Born joined at the chest with a fused liver and shared heart, they were separated last August at seven weeks of age in a controversial procedure that sacrificed one sister, Amy, so that the other, Angela, might live. The chance of success -- widely reported to be just 1% -- and the projected $1 million bill for the infants' care ignited a national debate over the limits of medical intervention. Now the Lakeberg girls lay reunited in death. A tragedy, surely, but not a surprise...