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body temperature from 37 de-sage the heart, trying to stimu-|man said. The team has per-|a tiny heart--about Hs Inches} grees Centigrade to 16-20 de-|late it into beating, working|formed some 250 experimental| across fromy apex to base. Trees. c i v4 pa é ; 8 Tila. sieeedtion cia: taeda prea Alki ae Whoo |animal transplants. | Drugs are given to help coun-|beforé the calcium chloride is} Dr. Koga, who carried the lism, lessening the need fohoxy-| "This is the most difficult The ice is removed and warm |teract the body's normal tenden-| given, the heart 'muscle 'will/heart from one baby to the. gen and keeping the baby from| part,' Dr. Carstensen said. 6gy.|Water--at about 40 degrees--is|cy to reject foreign tissue. So-|start to contract. What the sur-|other, also did the heart. mas- dying during the time he is|turing is something surgeons do| Put into the bassinet-like object dium bicarbonate. is given tojgeons expect was fibrillation--| sage. without a heart. Oxygen islevery day." jthe baby lies in. A warm, ster-/counter a buildup of acid in thejrapid irregular contractions of] Then the baby's chest was cuteved into his leige ty the oes ile, saline solution is put into|tissue during the time without| the muscle fibres. slosed. He had a normal elec anestheologist. RESEARCH TAKES OVER the heart atea. The liquid is) oxygen. Calcium : chloride is} 'In this instance," Dr. Koga trocardiagram, was breathing The infant. was without a|_,2 is is what calls for the spe-|kept flowing, the heart is being/used to give more "'tone" to the | said, 'the heart started to react/on his own. He was pas heart toeahont Sk minutes dom cial experience gained in re-|massaged, the lumps pumped. {heart muscle. normally, We spontaneously gotjurine, indicating good bl ing the operation. search with animals, Dr. Sher-| They have been working with! As the muscle tone develops,|normal beating." |flow. But he died, Doctors removed the healthy heart from the dead donor and placed it in a small basin con- FROM DEAD TO LIVING Spark Of Life Carried Across Room By Doctor By BRIAN SULLIVAN | He lived normally for 614)four members of the team in an NEW YORK (AP) -- Dr. Ya-| hours after the operation. Then|interview Thursday. | a | * - . | sunori Koga carried the life hen stopped--the heart stopped) Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, the THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, December 8, 1967 ced . yne-man war with ted in June, 1966, caped from Mont- Hospital where he ated for an injured as serving a four- r robbery with vio- beating. There was no explana-|chief surgeon in the operation, 1966, he shot his a police ambush ue in north-central evaded a similar nth later near La- yest of Montreal. 'ime. trom the dead baby across the\tion. Doctors said they didn't|credited Dr. Norman Shumway|taining an ice cold saline solu-| iter he. was caught room . ws know why. 'of the Stanford Medical Centre,|tion--chilling it to about for MP in Bathurst, There surgeons placed the tiny) That was Wednesday when|Palo Alto, Calif., with develop.|degrees Centigrade -- so it too aped after slugging heart in the chest of another|surgeons at Maimonides Medi-|ing the procedure. It was de-\Can avoid damage while it is a lead pipe. infant, after taking his hopeless-|cal Centre in Brooklyn admitted| scribed by Dr. Koga, Dr, Jac-| Without oxygen. ICE ST. 1AWA hone 4611 lectric Heating ly sick heart out. They sewed failure in the second reported/ques L. Sherman Jr., the hospi- the ey heart ea squeezed it] attempt in history to transplant|tal medical director, and Drs until it began to beat normally a human heart. Hans E. Carstensen a nd and life surged through the in-| The procedure was described Sujansky. ee fant's body. for The Associated Press by Mrs. Washkansky Visited Her Husband Yesterday By DAVID J. PAINE CAPE TOWN (AP) -- Mrs. Louis Washkansky visited her husband Thursday for the first time since his heart tragsplant operation and found him strong, cheerful and "just too beauti- ful." "I'm feeling fine," Washkan- sky told his fellow South Afri- cans in a nationwide broadcast from his bedside. The 55-year-old wholesale gro- cer's physicians, encouraged by his: excellent progress, allowed his wife to enter sterilized room 274 at Groote Schuur Hospital for a four-minute chat after one of the surgeons interviewed Washkansky for the South Afri- can national radio network "He is so much better than J expected," Mrs. Washkansky said. "He is so cheerful and bright. I was astonished by his strength." HAND REACHES OUT Wearing a surgical gown and mask she entered her husband's room with instructions not to kiss him. He reached out for her arm, she said, and told her: terview. replied, "How do you feel about being a famous man now?" "Told you, I'm not famous. It's the doctor that's famous, the man with the hands."" Washkansky's "'man with the golden hands" is Dr, Christian Barnard, head of the team of surgeons who Sunday replaced Washkansky's badly fibrosed heart with the heart of a 25- year-old woman killed in an auto accident a few hours be- i\fore. It was medical history's first recorded human heart \transplant. |IMPROVEMENT CONTINUES Although Washkansky has shown_continuous improvement |since the operation, he now is in the critical period during which the body's natural tendency to repel foreign objects may reject the transplanted heart. But Dr. |Barnard predicted that would jnot happen. Bosman asked in the radio in-| golden, DONER'S LIFE EBBS On one side of the room, a |five-day-old boy with a healthy |heart but a lethal brain lesion died. It was about 4 a.m. | "Within minutes, when the heart action stopped, his chest was opened," Dr. Sherman said. "At the same 'time, another team of surgeons was opening the chest of the other infant." | The 2%-week-old baby who | 'I'm feeling fine," the patient) was to receive the new heart--|heating starts. The heart is in his was damaged so badly he would have died in days or weeks at the most--was in deep hypothermia. He was literally encased in ice cubs to lower his'ogist begins to squeeze or mas- PING-PONG TABLES Sturdy legs, 4 bets, net,, steel posts and bolls REMOVE HEART All the functioning parts of \the damaged heart are re- |moved; all that remains are a |small part of the back wall of jthe upper chambers or atrium and the septum or membrane 'between them. This gives the |surgeons a "bed" in which to |place the new heart as they su- {ture the atrium, the aorta or {main artery and the pulmonary jartery. "When this is done, the trans- |planting is complete," the sur- jgeon explained. 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