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Thursday, September 21, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Doctors refine transplant method
DENVER (UPI)—The chief of surgery at the Colorado University Medical Center says critically ill persons who need new hearts, lungs, kidneys or other organs now can undergo transplant operations with a device that the transplanted organ will be resected.
Thomas Staral, who is head of a research group of five doctors from the center and the Veterans Administration Hospital, said experts believe eight months is been extremely effective.
The biggest obstacle to successful organ transplantes has been the body's rejection of the transplanted organ, which is similar to its rejection of bacteria and other foreign materials.
Starzi said researchers have refined a technique that prevents such rejection. The work has been so effective the medical center is planning to resume heart transplants, an operation it stopped five years ago because of the poor success ratio.
STARZL SAID that with the refined technique, transplant operations are possible even for persons once thought to be excessively high risks.
He predicted the new procedure is likely to increase research into transplanting such rarely moved organs such as the pancreas and the lungs. The CU center pioneered transplant operations involving kidneys and livers.
The refined technique is called thoracic duct drainage. It involves draining lymph fluid from the chest through a catheter in the neck, removing cells called lymphocytes from the fluid and reintroducing the fluid into the body through a vein.
Lymphocytes, the cells taken away, are responsible for combating bacterial infections and fight
bacteria, they also battle everything else that intrudes the body, including new or old germs.
STARZL SAID that under the new system, transplant recipients are given antibiotics. The loss of lymphocytes does not change patients' chances for serious infections, he said.
Starlar, who announced the research results at a meeting of the international Transplantation Society in home last week, said that patients with the rare disease patients at the center died this year and that their deaths were unrelated to organ transplantation. "Many patients usually survive as long as a year."
He said 22 kidney recipients, treated with thoracic duct drainage, have survived. Usually 10 percent of kidney recipients die within two months.
IN ADDITION, THE center's only pancreas transplant patient also has survived,
and his organ appears to be functioning, he said. Chances of success in such transplants are 20 percent.
Starzi said two patients whose antibody rates were so high that they normally would be denied kidney transplants also seemed to be doing well.
"Usually, if they'd have gotten a kidney, they'd have just lost it on the operating table." Starzi said. "They were considered non-transplantable."
Stariz said the drainage is not a new technique, but has not been widely used because of its expense and technical handicaps. He said Lawrence J. Koep, another member of the research team, had "worked out the kinks in the whole thing."
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Most problems were caused when the strike spread to the Louisville and Nashville road, the Dellaware & Hudson companies in St. Louis and Kansas City.
WASHINGTON (UP1) - Amtrak passenger train service was disrupted across wide areas of the East, Midwest and South yesterday while a strike against the Norfolk & Western Railroad spread to other railroads and terminals.
Chicago-Florida service was halted, Chicago-St. Louis service temporarily ran. Only Chicago-Springfield and various other routes were disrupted or delayed by New York-Kansas City New York-Montreal north of Albany, N.Y.
JAZZ
- St. Louis-Chicagoc service was halted temporarily at Springfield.
JAZZ
- The westbound New York-Kansas City National Limited probably was to top at Indianapolis or East St. Louis yesterday.
JAZZ
- Chicago-Lared service and Chicago-
Lared Angles service will not be affected.
- The northbound New York-Montreal Adirondack did not operate Tuesday and the southbound train operated only Albanv-New York yesterday.
Paul Gray's Jazz Place 928 Mass. upstairs
Tonight: Jam session with the River City Jazz Band—no cover!
Friday: The Mill Beiser Quartet
Saturday: The Hainobi Trio
- Tuesday's northbound Miami-Chicago Floridian terminated at Jacksonville, Fla.
Strike hinders Amtrak
HERE IS a route-by-route rundown of affected Amtrak service:
Admission Friday and Saturday only $3.00
Call 843-8575 her reservation
includes Free Beer, Peanuts, Pecorino and Soft Drinks!
FDA could block Laetrile
TOPEKA (UPI) - Despite the legalization of Laietrie in Kansas, federal opposition apparently will prevent the controversial cancer "cure" from being produced in the
Although the Legislature made production and distribution of Laerite legal July 1, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has received no applications for Laerite permits and only one cautious injury on the subject.
Donald Wilcox, director of the state Bureau of Epidemiology, ended up with the job of drafting Laetrile regulations for the department. He said the regulations are still under review and he was presented to the 1979 Legislature for approval before they officially go into effect.
No one can deal in lairicle, an extract of fruit pits, such as apicots and peaches.
ALTHOUGH LAWMAKERS succumbed to demands from a vocal minority and directed Heatha and the environment to license it, it has not made it available to make it available. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned it, calling it a unless placebo that might have harmful effects.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has upholded a federal judge's ruling in Oklahoma that allows terminal cancer patients to receive the substance in intravenous medication by a doctor. But the 7th U.S. Circuit Court in Chicago upheld the FDA's authority to
prohibit its interstate shipment. It is expected that a Supreme Court decision will address this issue.
Until that time, except for terminal cancer cases, the FDA is prohibiting intermittent use of its products for its manufacture (peach and apricot pits). Wilcox quoted reports indicating only California, which already has banned the use of large enough quantity of pits to produce it.
Even though it is authorized in 17 states,
no state is manufacturing Laetrile, Wileyco
"The FDA HAS indicated that even if a state had adequate raw materials, they would fight them right down to the bottleneck in the manufacturing process," he said.
DORMITORY
Nowcomes Miller
much of the Laetrile used in the United States generally under court order, in from Mexico.
Even if the FDA restrictions were eliminated, Wilcox said, the proposed state regulations carry a number of safeguards. Included are standards of purity and procedures for manufacturing, testing, packing and distribution. The regulations even prescribe how much may be charged for it.
(1976)
sua films
Friday and Saturday, Sept. 22 & 23
CAR WASH
$1.50 3:30,7pm;9:30 Woodruff Aud.
Dir, Michael Schultz, with Franklin Alrge, Richard Price, Gary Corlart, George Carlin, Lorraine Gaye, Pointerie Hairfield, performed by Rose Royce. Whifield, performed by Rose Royce.
Monday, Sept. 25
Cecil B. DeMille:
CLEOPATRA
(1934)
Dir. Cecil B. DeMille, with Claudeette Hillen, Wilson Cameron, Warren William, Winner 1934 Academy Award for black and white photography.
$1.00 7:30 pm Woodruff Aud.
Tuesday, Sept. 26
A Film Symposium on Rape with a Speaker:
NO LIES (1973)
FEAR (1973)
RAPE PREVENTION:
NO PAT ANSWER
(1975)
Dir. Polly Pettit.
$1.00 7:30 pm Forum Room
Wednesday, Sept. 27
CITIZEN KANE
(1941)
Dir. Orson Wells, with Orson Wells,
Joseph Colton, Jones Moorehead,
Dorothy Comingbe, Considered to be
"Citizen Kane is probably the film"
that has started the largest number of
filmmakers in their careers:"
$1.00 7:30 & 9:30 pm Woodruff Aud.
Thursday, Sept. 28
MEDIUM COOL
(1969)
D. Haskell Wexler, with Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Harold Koerner, Sergio Moreno, Academy Academy Award winning cinematographer Wexler, with David Foulud Auclair.