Danger Signs Stop
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) CAPE TOWN, Dec. 10. Tiny indications that the body might be rejecting the heart transplanted in Louis Wash kansky almost a week ago have disappeared after slightly intensified treatment, one of the team of doctors attending him said yesterday. They had been the first
suggestions that the greatest threat to the heart transplant—the tendency of the body to reject any foreign tissue placed in it—might have begun. They were so small that they were not more than a “suspicion” of rejection, and first appeared on Friday, said Dr T. O’Donovan. Special tests conducted
yesterday after a slight stepping-up in the'treatment to counter “immunological rejection” showed that they had disappeared, he said. “The signs were minimal and we feel we were fully justified in treating him as we did,” Dr O’Donovan said. “Washkansky’s general position continues to improve,” he said.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31549, 11 December 1967, Page 13
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