radiation, 29, 91, 324
in kidney transplantation, 88–89, 91, 92, 94–96
rats, 98
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions (Brand), 222
Reemtsma, Keith, 322–25
Reitz, Bruce, 160–61, 162
renal disease, see kidney disease and kidney failure
retractors, 70
rheumatic fever, 120
Riteris, John, 92
Roberts, John, 335–36
Rockefeller, John D., 28
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 30
Rockefeller Institute, 28, 29, 30
Rodriguez, Julie, 201
Roosevelt, Theodore, 30
Rosh Hashanah, 239
Rous, Francis Peyton, 29
Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy, 18
Royal Free Hospital, 94
Russell, John Richard, 158–59
Sachs, David, 88
Sandoz, 97–98
Schafstadt, Sofia, 51
Schwartz, Robert, 94
Science, 26, 64
sequential-compression device, 45
Shirley (mother of donor Kylie), 279–82
Shumacker, Harris B., Jr., 103
Shumway, Norman, 134–35, 139–40, 143, 144, 322, 328, 333, 335
Barnard and, 138–39
heart-lung transplants of, 160–61
heart transplants of, 140–41, 148, 152, 156–57, 159–60
6-Mercaptopurine (b-MP), 94, 95, 188
skin grafts, 53–66, 85
in animals, 60, 62
dermatome in, 55, 57
immune response and, 54
Medawar’s work in, 61–62, 87
Murray’s work on Woods, 82–83
procurement in, 55–58
rejection in, 54
sleeper kidney (anuria), 77–78
Smith, Winnie, 203
snowmobile accidents, 4–5
Solis, Bernie, 191–92, 199–200
Sollinger, Hans, 164–65, 174
South Africa
Cape Town, 135, 136, 137
Barnard’s first heart transplant in, 144–52
legal definition of death in, 144, 147
So You Want to Be a Surgeon (Johansen and Heimbach), 330
squeezy boots, 45
Stähelin, Hartmann, 98
Stanford Medical School, 139, 141, 160, 161
Starzl, Thomas, 96–97, 99, 328, 333–34, 337, 338, 339
death of, 206
early life of, 183–84
and ethical issues in transplant, 284, 285, 291, 304
kidney transplant work of, 188, 191
from baboons to humans, 325
liver transplant surgeons trained by, 205, 206, 236
liver transplant work of, 157, 181–89, 199–206
with dogs, 183, 186–88, 191, 200
first human transplant, 191–92, 199–200, 220
The Puzzle People, 181–82, 186
retirement of, 205
steroids, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 161, 189, 204, 324
Stubenbord, Dr., 42
succus, 172, 173
sulfadiazine, 60
surgery, 37, 210, 211, 217, 299–300
asepsis in, 27
being a surgeon, 329–41
complications in, 309–21
after kidney transplant, 310, 317–21
after liver transplant, 311–15, 331–32
metaphorical box and, 316
morbidity and mortality conferences and, 315–16
emotional detachment in, 105
on obese patients, 68
pancreas in, 163–64
vascular anastomosis (reconnection of blood vessels) in, 21–27, 32
Surgery of the Soul (Murray), 93, 329–30
Swazey, Judith, 334–35
tetralogy of Fallot, 125, 142
Thompson, Geraldine, 125–26
Thompson, Leslie, 125–26
Thoreau, Henry David, 209
Thorn, George, 72–73, 74, 83
thymus, 90
Tina (patient), 130–34
TIPS (transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt), 179–80
Tito (patient), 193–99
Torril (patient), 305
transplantation, see organ transplants
transplant coordinators, 216, 240
transplant surgeons, 329–41
Trendelenburg procedure, 113
Tucker, Bruce, 152–55
twins
cattle, 62–65
kidney transplant between, 83–87, 91, 93, 94, 96, 188–89
Type1moms, 163
“Unetanah Tokef,” 239
Uniform Determination of Death Act, 291
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), 250–51
United Therapeutics, 328
University of California–San Francisco (UCSF), 295, 335–36
University of Chicago, 24, 87–88, 104–12, 116–19, 164
University of Iowa, 242
University of Miami, 184
University of Minnesota, 121–26, 134–39, 169–70, 176
University of Mississippi Medical Center, 157
University of Pittsburgh, 183
University of Toronto, 161, 168
University of Utah, 52
University of Wisconsin, 4, 9, 25, 63–64, 164, 165, 176, 244, 336
preservation solution of, 7, 8
urea, 45, 46, 49, 51
Valley Forge General Hospital, 81–82
Vanderbilt Medical School, 135
van Dijk, E. C., 48
vascular anastomosis (reconnection of blood vessels), 21–27, 32
vascular injuries, 22
veins, 38, 185
vena cava, 6, 7, 9–10, 115, 137, 138
liver and, 178–79, 187
ventral septal defect (VSD), 123–26, 127–28, 137–38, 140
Verghese, Abraham, 329
Wangensteen, Owen H., 121–22, 137
Barnard and, 135–37, 139, 141
Washkansky, Louis, 145–52
Watson, Thomas, 120
Wayne (donor), 290–91
Welch, William, 27
Wells, H. G., 30
Whipple procedure, 164
White, David, 98
Wilder, Douglas, 154
Wilson, Charlie, 314
Wilson, Woodrow, 30
Wilson’s disease, 258
Woodruff, Michael, 284
Woods, Charles, 80–83
World War I, 29
World War II, 22, 28, 30, 50, 59, 116, 119, 287
atomic bombs in, 91
Blitz in, 58–59
see also Nazis
wound healing, 29–30, 161
Wright brothers, 155
xenotransplantation, 322–28, 338
baboons in, 325
chimpanzees in, 157, 159, 323–25, 326
FDA and, 325–26
moratorium on, 325
pigs in, 338
rhesus monkey in, 323
viruses and, 326
Yom Kippur, 239
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