Thursday, Feb. 6, 1986
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Jarvik defends artificial hearts
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WASHINGTON — The developer of the artificial heart told Congress yesterday that its use in humans needed less federal regulation, but other experts testified that permanent implantation should be suspended.
Robert Javik, president of Symbion Inc., which manufactures the device that bears his name, said, "In life and death situations, this need not be regulated as heavily as it has been."
But George Annas, professor of health law at Boston University, said, "Permanent artificial implants should be suspended because of the devastating results they have had on subjects and their families, because their original justifications are no longer valid, and because the consent process is too primitive to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects."
DeVries disagreed, saying, "I would not implant an artificial heart if I did not think it would give the patient an increased quality of life."
The witnesses testified before the investigations subcommittee of the House Committee on Science and Technology.
William DeVries transplanted an artificial heart in William Schroeder, who has lived for 14 months.
Three plastic pumps implanted in 3 days
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who has lived for 14 years.
Schreeder's son, Mel, said that
The third patient in the United States to receive an artificial heart this week was awake and alert yesterday, but another developed a low-grade fever that had her doctors puzzled.
On Sunday and Monday, artificial hearts were placed in the chests of a 40-year-old woman in Tucson, Ariz., and a 39-year-old man in Pittsburgh. On Tuesday a 41-year-old man in Houston received a mechanical heart.
In Minneapolis, the first woman to receive an artificial heart was reported making good progress since the mechanical pump was replaced Friday with a human heart.
The latest patient was identified by the Texas Heart Institute as
Harris Kent, a retired Armed Forces officer from El Paso.
"We had been sustaining the patient on the intra-aortic balloon pump for seven days, but the condition of the patient deteriorated," said Bud Frazier, a physician involved in the implant. "There was no heart available, and it became a life-saving procedure."
In Tucson, Bernadette Chayre,
40, remained in critical condition
at University of Arizona Medical
Center and developed a low-grade
fever in her third day of life with
an artificial heart.
Jack G. Copeland, who directed the implant of the banned mini-Jarvik with emergency federal consent, was puzzled by the fever.
"Dr. Copeland doesn't know the answer yet," a spokesman said.
Wolfe also said the use of artificial hearts in patients awaiting human heart transplants should be put on hold until more data on patients is collected and evaluated.
Jarvik said three of the eight patients treated with the Jarvik-7 heart "were bridge-to-transplant patients, two of whom are at home now in excellent condition."
when confronted with imminent death, "Dad chose life and the artificial heart."
Annas, focusing on legal and ethical issues, said, "Ethics and law have taken a distinctly back seat to notions of scientific advance."
Annas said the government had been unable or unwilling to supervise or control implant experimentation. He called for additional controls to safeguard the rights and welfare of human subjects.
He said recipients of artificial hearts had died or suffered "devastating and disabling strokes or seizures and experienced serious bleeding problems."
"It is possible to make the argument that the initial implant in Barney Clark was justifiable," he said of the first recipient of an artificial heart. He said it was not then known it would "cause such devastating results."
Sidney Wolfe, representing the Public Citizens Health Research Group, said it was unfortunate the
Federal Drug Administration had "refused to stop further permanent implants now despite the tragic and unacceptable results on the first wave of people in whom the Jarvik heart was implanted."
"It is no longer possible reasonably to make this argument," Annas said.
Risk of contracting AIDS almost nil, doctors state
BOSTON — People who share toothbrushes, bathtubs, toilets and towels with AIDS patients run virtually no risk of infection, debunking the myth that that dreaded disease can be spread by casual contact, doctors said yesterday.
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Blanket testing of military personnel and calls for the quarantining of AIDS patients are unnecessary and motivated by fear rather than fact, said the physician who spearheaded
the research at New York's Montefiore Medical Center.
The four-year study of 101 people who were close family members of 39 AIDS patients showed no evidence that they had contracted the illness despite sharing toilets, baths, showers and kitchen utensils with the victims.
Only one of the 101 family members - a young girl born to an infected mother - ended up having a problem related to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
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