Wednesday, January 10, 1968
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Heart transplant patient dies-
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Continued from page 1 Death came 10 hours after Block was wheeled from the operating theater. Indications that the patient would not survive came shortly after midnight, well before his death.
A medical bulletin said Block had "taken a turn for the worse."
and conceded that despite constant attention by nurses and physicians, the operating and recovery team was unable to stem the plunge in Block's blood pressure.
Kantrowitz defended his use of the woman's heart after the surgery. He indicated that although
the medical team knew it was taking a calculated risk implanting a smaller heart, the decision was made because both Block and Miss Krouch were "perfectly matched" blood types, lessening the possibility that the recipient's body would so violently reject the new heart, a foreign object, that the patient would be doomed.
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HOLLYWOOD — (UPI) — One of the most exciting concepts in the history of network television news programming was announced Tuesday by NBC.
Philip Blaiberg was reported in excellent condition and making steady progress. Doctors hoped the retired dentist, third recipient of a new heart, would be able to return home in two weeks.
The network said that in one year, on Jan. 7, 1969, it would start broadcasting commercial television's first, regularly-scheduled, two-hour, prime-time news series on a monthly basis.
Second attempt
"Aggressive journalism" will characterize the series, said William R. McAndrew, president of NBC News.
"We are going to stress investigative reporting," he added, "either of events that have taken place or of the old-fashioned, hard-digging, revelation kind of journalism. And we are going to aim at the uninvolved young of
Block's operation was performed by a team of 25 nurses and physicians led by famed heart surgeon Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz. It was the second heart transplant at Maimonides, both performed by Kantrowitz.
The first, on Dec. 6, 1957, was between two baby boys. The recipient died seven hours after the operation, which Kantrowitz called "a failure, pure and simple."
Joseph Krouch said his daughter "told me she would like to give her heart to someone else, if she knew she was going to die."
"I have adhered to her wishes."
Block, Kantrowitz said, was suffering from severe coronary occlusions and chronic congestive failure." Doctors said the retired fireman had suffered his first heart attack nine years ago and his alliment was "terminal."
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Miss Krouch, who suffered head injuries in an auto accident two years ago, collapsed Monday and doctors told her family she could not survive the brain tumor.
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Dr. Kantrowitz, at a short news conference after the surgery, said the operation had taken about two hours longer than anticipated. He said some "problems" arose because Miss Krouch's heart, stitched into Block's chest, was only half the size of the diseased organ removed.
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The announcement is another large step in the elongation of prime time network programming, a trend already marked by the success of movies and lengthy specials.
Kasperak's condition remained critical, but officials at Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital said he was "a little bit better."
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The surgeon said the smaller heart had been aided by a helium-driven balloon pump to ease the burden of the new heart.
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It appears, in part, to be one of commercial television's answers to the new "Public Broadcast Laboratory" of national educational video.
The world's two other surviving heart transplant patients continued to improve in their struggle for new life. In Palo Alto, Calif., retired steelworker Mike Kasperak sat up on the edge of his bed for the first time Tuesday night, as physicians battled to overcome post-operative liver, kidney and respiratory complications.
The laboratory is a weekly two-hour live series which attempts to explore news and cultural developments in depth, and also with an investigative eye at times.
NBC says of its coming series:
NBC says or its coming series: "This new effort will bring together investigative reporting units with time to dig into a running story or to go out and uncover a new one. We can—with this unrestricted format—do as little as two stories or as many as a dozen. But, in any case, the story itself will dictate how much time we give it, rather than any so-called format."
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