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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1969
Page
5
After a year of heart transplant efforts, surgeons report both hopeful gains and continuing limits. Ailing patients await donor hearts as doctors pursue better methods, artificial hearts, and strategies to prevent heart disease while supply and demand remain tight.
Installation officers and new officers for Trowel chapter Royal Arch Masons Palestine council Royal Master of First Veil and Select Masters will meet Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the Masonic Temple 210 Sixth Street NE Charles R Keller and Charles L Hoff named new leaders Other officers listed with names and titles across Trowel chapter and Palestine council Also notes on heart transplant history and ongoing surgeries with figures and experts in the field.
Doctors discuss second year outlook for heart transplants noting better first year survival than kidney or open heart surgery, but emphasize limited experience. Experts from Medawar to DeBakey stress life extension justify proceeding, while Kantrowitz Shumway urge careful, ongoing clinical investigation before final judgment.
The National Heart Institute sponsors a national and international registry to record treatment and results in all heart transplants for use by medical scientists. Early optimism faded as doctors note rejection is common and delayed rejection looms. Matching blood and tissue types helps, yet even ideal matches may fail to explain why some patients thrive.
The search for safer rejection prevention in heart transplant patients focuses on reducing reliance on broad drugs. ALG antilymphocytic globulin helps but risks horse serum sensitization. researchers hope improved immune understanding will aid cancer and other diseases.
The article outlines advances in cross species organ use and transplant logistics. It notes donor heart shortages with about one heart per hundred patients and hospital wait times. Regional procurement centers in Los Angeles Boston and Richmond aim to match donors and recipients. Research preserves hearts by maintaining circulation and portable chambers. States consider a Uniform Anatomical Gift Act allowing adults to pledge body parts and ease interstate shipments.
The article discusses the moral stakes of artificial heart research and transplant ethics. It cites Dr. DeBakey and Dr. Murray on the all or nothing nature of the field, the high costs of transplants, and the idea of treating organs as a national resource. It outlines two main approaches to brain death and notes the complex questions faced by physicians when removing hearts or kidneys.
The piece argues that transplant costs fund medical education and research to prevent heart disease, with goals including artificial hearts and safer blood chemistry. It notes public fascination with life hinging on the heart and mentions Clive Haupt’s case at Duke as part of the discussion.
The Defense Department asks Congress for 2.5 billion dollars for fiscal year 1976 to fund housing and modernization of 288 installations in the United States and overseas including Europe Pacific islands Japan and Korea. The plan allocates 959.3 million to the Army 353.7 million to the Navy 352.1 million to the Air Force and 72.5 million to various defense funds.
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