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Transplantation of a human heart is without a doubt the most dramatic feat of modern surgery. Yet while the heart is only a pump, the liver, by contrast, is an immensely complex processing factory, with dozens of functions involving the chemistry of metabolism. Transplantation of a liver is far more difficult than that of a heart, and so far equally rare. Eight patients who have received new livers at three U.S. medical centers within the past year are now alive. In the early days of liver transplantation, survival for a month was considered remarkable. Last week one of the patients...
...most common causes of irreparable, irreversible liver damage is a congenital abnormality of the bile ducts called biliary atresia, which behaves like a malignancy and usually proves fatal within 18 months of birth. The other cause is cancer itself, which may strike...
...high school basketball player from Oneonta, N.Y. Last February he was elbowed in the abdomen and doubled up with severe pain, but he shook it off. A second elbowing put Tommy into the University Hospital in Syracuse, where surgeons trying to sew up his lacerated liver discovered that it was cancerous. Since the cancer was found to be incurable, Tommy was referred to Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for a possible transplant...
...indefinitely and ship it easily. Most of them lack facilities for extracting serum albumin, and would have to buy that. But if they do not ship across state lines, federal regulations cannot touch them. Meanwhile, the number of federally reported cases of serum hepatitis-a miserably lingering and debilitating liver disease, sometimes fatal-is running at double the 1967 rate, with 2,050 cases tallied so far this year...
Died. Clyde M. Warrior, 28, Oklahoma Ponca Indian who founded and led the National Indian Youth Council to fight for "Red Power" and against the frustrations he encountered that turned him into an alcoholic; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Enid, Okla. In 1963, when few Americans linked Indians with civil rights, Warrior participated in the March on Washington, shortly after formed his youth council of 2,000 braves, which is dedicated to winning real acceptance for the nation's 600,000 red men and women...