The Loyola Phoenix: Loyola Med Center performs first heart transplant
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The Loyola Phoenix: Loyola Med Center performs first heart transplant
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Second image: detail of the article's diagram of the heart transplant procedure
This front-page article by Frank Vela reports that "The Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood performed the first heart transplant in the Chicago area in the past 14 years.
The patient, twenty-one-year-old Michael Dowling from Villa Park was reported doing very well on Tuesday by Dr. John O'Connell, assistant professor of medicine at the Medical Center and medical director of the heart transplant program.
As one surgical team was preparing Dowling for the surgery Sunday morning, another flew by helicopter to remove the heart from a Chicago area auto accident victim whose brain had stopped functioning.
The donor heart, treated with drugs and packed in ice to keep it just a few degrees above freezing was then flown to Loyola."
The hospital staff observed Dowling, waiting to see if his body would accept the new heart. The disease he had previously would have been fatal without the transplant, which was "the first heart transplant at Loyola and the first in Chicago since the late 1960's. The success rate had been low until the development of cyclosporine, which "counteracts the body's tendency to reject a foreign organ."
Second image: detail of the article's diagram of the heart transplant procedure
This front-page article by Frank Vela reports that "The Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood performed the first heart transplant in the Chicago area in the past 14 years.
The patient, twenty-one-year-old Michael Dowling from Villa Park was reported doing very well on Tuesday by Dr. John O'Connell, assistant professor of medicine at the Medical Center and medical director of the heart transplant program.
As one surgical team was preparing Dowling for the surgery Sunday morning, another flew by helicopter to remove the heart from a Chicago area auto accident victim whose brain had stopped functioning.
The donor heart, treated with drugs and packed in ice to keep it just a few degrees above freezing was then flown to Loyola."
The hospital staff observed Dowling, waiting to see if his body would accept the new heart. The disease he had previously would have been fatal without the transplant, which was "the first heart transplant at Loyola and the first in Chicago since the late 1960's. The success rate had been low until the development of cyclosporine, which "counteracts the body's tendency to reject a foreign organ."
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1984-03-16
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The Loyola Phoenix, 1984-03-16, page 1.
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University Archives and Special Collections
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University Archives and Special Collections, The Loyola Phoenix, 1984-03-16, page 1.
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Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood
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