Iowa heart transplant survivors list shows age and origin
Helen Hamm of Dubuque at 66 is noted as possibly among the nation’s oldest heart transplant recipients. The compiled list records transplant dates, recipient hometowns and ages, and transplant sites, detailing numerous Iowa survivors and eleven IA recipients who have died, with names such as Dennis MacVey, Glen Guy, Marvin Woltzen, and Paul Kasel among others across cities like Des Moines, Iowa City, and Dubuque through 1987.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Hamm
Dubuque
Iowa
Dennis MacVey
Rural Rolfe
Richmond
Ted Nowakowski
Murray
University of Minnesota
Dave
Ryan Melone
Des Moines
Mercy
John Bergfeld
Rural Dubuque
Andrew O. Hinze
Oelwein
University of Iowa
Gene Lesch
Panora
Richard Kelley
Lake City
David Maland
Slater
Gary Halva
West Union
Harley M. Volk
Logan
Bryan Memorial Hospital
Lincoln
Neb
Richard Edwards
Clinton
Sierra Tometich
Boone
Calvin Thomas
Davenport
Richard
Tabatha Recovers From Second Surgery After Five-Organ Transplant
Tabatha Foster, a 3-year-old from Madisonville Kentucky, is recovering after a second operation at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Doctors repaired two openings on her intestinal suture line and reported the liver and intestines look normal with no signs of rejection. The five-organ transplant included a liver, pancreas, small intestine, and parts of stomach and colon from a brain dead Virginia donor, performed in a 15-hour procedure ending November 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Firrs Burunary
Tabatha Foster
Madisonville
Dick Riebling
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Tabatha
Virginia
United States
Children’s Hospital
Rush- Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital
Chicago
Becky Moore
Iowa City
Becky
Towa
Ted Nowakowski
Murray Community High School
Iowa
Nowacowski
Bob Mathern
Waterloo
Mathern
Darlene Moore
Waathern
Stanford University
Organ transplantation era and organ donation prospects grow
A detailed feature notes organ shortages driving talk of using animal organs as bridges, cites 470 Stanford transplants with 219 survivors, 82 percent heart survival after one year, and 90 percent kidney success. It profiles donors and recipients including Willem Van Buuren and Dennis MacVey, and discusses social and medical hurdles to broader donation and tissue engineering advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corry
Phillips
Key to kidney transplant is tissue match
Pittsburgh AP report notes anti rejection drugs boost initial success to about 80 percent after one year and four of five after, but long term survival hinges on tissue matching. Terasaki registry head says only 30 percent of transplanted kidneys still function after 10 years, with matching rising in impact over a decade. Limited donor supply leaves many patients awaiting transplants.
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Pittsburgh
Fone
Paul Terasaki
Terasaki
Thomas E. Starzl
University of Pittsburgh
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Ean Borel
Switzerland
Sandoz Limited
United States
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Lowa
Emerson Martin
North Liberty
University of Owa
Paul Sariecki
West Des Moines
Mercy Hospital At Center
Robert Sharp
Johnston
Michael McKinnon
John Justice
Creston
Donald Tharp
Bloomfield
Wallace Britson
Webster City
Herbert Jonas
Fort Dodge
LeRoy Frank
Lake View
Don Music
Vinton
Bill Frandsen
Cherokee
Christin Flisher
Ann Michael
Paul Kasel
Osage
Marissa Getting
Grundy Center
Marc Rowe
Siegel
South Africa
Christiaan Barnard
Willem van Buuren
Robert Corry
University Hospits
Maimonides Hospital
Brooklyn
N.Y
University Hospitals
Macvey
Veterans Administration Hospital
Savannah
WSS
Cere
Tolle Cele
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