Heart Patients Both Improve
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) CAPETOWN, January 16. The heart transplant patient, Dr Philip Blaiberg, spent most of this morning sitting up in his specially sterilised chair and was visited by his wife and daughter.
A Groote Schuur Hospital bulletin said the patient continued to make good progress.
A fortnight ago Dr Blaiberg received the heart of 24-year-old Clive Haupt. In Palo Alto, California, America’s first adult heart transplant patient, Mike Kasperak, was still in critical condition today but doctors believed he had beaten back recurrent liver troubles which plagued him since his operation 10 days ago.
Doctors must now steer carefully between too little and too much treatment in fighting the body’s natural defence mechanism which will try to reject the new heart.
In Cape Town, Johan Van Wyk, who received a kidney transplant just over six weeks ago, was said today to. be "not too good.” A hospital spokesman said the 10-year-old boy had high blood pressure but the condition was not due to his body rejecting the transplanted kidney.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31579, 17 January 1968, Page 16
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