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...from 16 months to two years, all four were gravely ill, and the University of Colorado doctors who described their cases were guarded in discussing the children's prospects for recovery. But merely by being alive, all were making medical history. They had survived a complete liver transplant for periods ranging from 45 to 122 days, longer than any previous patient, for whom the record had been 23 days...
Julie Rodriguez, from Pueblo, Colo., had liver cancer, which spread despite surgery and drug and X-ray treatment. On July 23, Dr. Thomas Starzl's University of Colorado transplant team removed her liver and replaced it with one from a child killed in an accident. Julie has since had part of a lung and another tumor removed; she may still have cancer. But, says her mother, "she's a lot happier. She's really 100% better. The future-we don't know. We didn't have any before. But I've had her four...
...children received a cortisone-type hormone to reduce the inflammatory reaction against the transplant; when two showed severe infections, the drug was stopped. All except Carol Macourt have suffered paralysis of the right diaphragm. Three have had severe infections in the transplanted livers. One had to have part of the liver removed; two more still have open drains. Even so, said Surgeon Carl G. Groth, there is evidence that three of the transplanted livers are regenerating...
...Starzl lessened the chances of adverse immune reaction by using healthy organs from children-much the same age and size as the patients-who had died of some cause other than a liver disease. Before implantation, the donated liver was matched for tissue and blood cells. To further assure a reasonable chance of success, Starzl and his colleagues gave their young patients injections of azathioprine (Imuran), prednisone and antilymphocyte globulin-all of which help to suppress immune reactions. The antilymphocyte globulin, newly developed from the blood of horses that have reacted to human tissue, is already helping to improve...
Surgically, such an operation would be far simpler than transplanting a heart, liver or even a kidney. But Dr. Norman emphasized that further experimentation-with dogs-must be conducted before spleen transplantation is attempted on a human being. Then, in all probability, a donor's spleen will be enclosed in a plastic bag, hooked up to a hemophiliac's circulating system and hung externally on his arm until it is certain that the method works...