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...diseased liver poses some of medicine's toughest problems. Surgeons have tried transplantation, but the process is incredibly difficult, and the survival record so far is only 13 months (TIME, Sept. 6). With varying degrees of success, doctors have 1) used massive blood transfusions, 2) passed the patient's blood through an excised but still functioning pig's liver, and 3) even connected a patient's bloodstream with another human's, thus letting the volunteer's liver function for both bodies. But the results have been spotty, at best. Now a team of South...
...When the liver fails completely, the results are so predictably fatal that doing anything that might provide relief is better than doing nothing. The healthy liver not only performs dozens of vital metabolic chores, it is also an essential purification plant, purging toxic wastes from the bloodstream. Even diseased, the liver has a remarkable capability: it can often regenerate its damaged cells and rebuild lost tissues. The problem is to keep the patient alive while the liver is taking a recuperative holiday...
...year-old nurse and mother of two children who was brought to Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital last July in a deep coma. Only a few days before, she had suffered a miscarriage. Early in her pregnancy, she had contracted severe hepatitis, and it left her liver badly damaged. Doctors tried seven blood exchanges, giving her body an entirely new supply of blood each time. Yet there was no noticeable improvement, and finally they turned in desperation to the baboon...
...farmers' crops that they are legally classified as vermin in South Africa. Highly developed primates and kin to man, baboons are also highly useful in medical research. Only recently, a baboon's cornea was successfully grafted onto a man's eye. A pig's liver, although it tolerates human blood, is not nearly so sophisticated as the baboon...
Lung Failures. With some 2,000 kidney, 30 liver and more than 40 heart grafts now logged in surgery's annals, the second international congress of the Transplantation Society turned its attention to two main problems: how to extend the variety of transplantable organs, and how to improve the survival chances of all grafts of whatever kind...