Human Intestines Transplanted

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31363, 8 May 1967, Page 20

Human Intestines Transplanted

YN.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MINNEAPOLIS, May 7. The transplant of human small and large intestines, believed to have been the first operation of its kind, has been performed at the university of Minnesota Hospital. The announcement said that the patient, a 46-year-old housewife, died of complications related to the disorder that had ruined her own intestines. However, the surgeon who

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performed the transplant operation last month, said the procedure itself had worked well and showed that the “technique is good.” Dr. Lillehei the pioneer procedure offered hope in the most serious cases of a disorder known as mesenteric venous infarction. He said that several hundred patients probably die each year of the condition, which involves the shutting off of the blood supply to the intestines, because of clotting. Considerable research with animals preceded the attempt with the human patient, said Dr. Lillehei. The transplant intestine came from a cadaver, which also had provided kidneys for two other patients and eye corneas for two blind persons.

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