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Thanks to drugs, surgery and mechanical devices, a failing heart need not be fatal. Machines or transplants can also preserve life when the kidneys stop working. The patient whose liver can no longer metabolize and dispose of his body's poisonous wastes, however, eventually lapses into a coma and dies. Exchange transfusions to replace most of his blood may help for short periods, but no machine yet devised can substitute for the organ, and the livers of pigs and calves have proved inadequate to the task of cleansing human blood. Now it appears that in a liver coma crisis...
Researchers and surgeons tried pumping human blood through baboon livers as early as 1965. Since then, Virginia Commonwealth University's Dr. David Hume and a team of colleagues headed by the Medical College of Georgia's Dr. George Abouna have refined the technique. Their findings, reported in the British Medical Journal, offer new hope for many victims of liver failure...
...Abouna group's first two patients were suffering from fulminating viral hepatitis, which had completely shut down their liver function. Death was only hours away when Abouna resorted to the use of baboons. The animals were given fatal doses of anesthesia. Their excised livers were then washed in order to remove, as much as possible, the proteins that might trigger a reaction in the patient. Finally, the patients' circulatory systems were hooked up to the blood vessels of the isolated livers, which rested at bedside in stainless steel chambers. While the patients' blood circulated through the baboon...
...Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., now report in the New England Journal of Medicine that, in four cases out of seven, doses of a natural body chemical have succeeded in dissolving cholesterol gallstones. This type of stone, it appears, forms when bile (a digestive substance secreted in the liver and stored in the gall bladder) is abnormally rich in cholesterol and proportionately low in the concentration of a natural metabolite, chenodeoxycholic acid. Of seven women who received chenodeoxycholic acid as medication over a period of months, one experienced complete dissolution of gallstones, while three showed marked decreases in the size...
Died. Dick Tiger, 42, the Ibo tribesman who punched his way to the world middleweight and light heavyweight boxing titles; of cancer of the liver; in Aba, Nigeria. Tiger, whose real name was Dick Ihetu, was taught to box by British army officers in Nigeria before he migrated to New York City in 1959. Three years later he knocked out Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer. By 1966 he had moved up a class and took the light heavyweight title from José Torres. After losing the title in 1968 Tiger periodically visited his home to train soldiers for the rebel Biafran...