TORONTO (CP) 7 Spare-
part surgery is bringing
doctors closer to the day
when they can build or
repplace any part of the
human body.

Up to the present,
surgeons have replaced with
human tissue or artificial
devices every organ, joint or
limb except the brain and
intestine.

Not all the substitutes
have succeeded. No lung
transplant pa atient has yet
‘survived. The world’s 38th
attempt, performed
recently at Toronto General

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TRANSPLANTS INCREASING

- Surgery not out of joints ..

who would otherwise:
dead, crippled or disfigured
have been helped with
transplants and artificial
organs.

“The era of transplanted ‘wa
organs began in 1951 with
kidney transplants
performed in Boston,

Since then about 20,000
kidney transplants have
been recorded. Toronto's
first two took place-in 1966
and the hospital recently
reported both patients are in
good health.

Dr. Bill. Nelems, who led

HEARTS REPLACED

Heart transplants are per-
formed regular! in
California. Research into
artificial hearts is under

way at the universities of
Alberta and Utah.

The. odds against
successful liver transplants
are ‘heavy, however, and
transplantation of ° the

pancreas still is. considered

experimental: ’

Research at Connaught.

Laboratories in Toronto
may lead to. the
development of an artificial

‘The existence of eye
banks . ’

combat infections), the
larynx, the parathyroid
glands (needed to keep
calcium in balance), bone
marrow, ovaries and
vagin

Doctors in St. Louis er
formed what is beliey:
be the first testicle
transplant in May

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know that ear bunke have
been established in some
centres,

- Eardrums are stored for

- toes. Veins from

PARTS TRANSFERRED

In some operations, parts
of a patient’s own body are
used as transplants. Toronto
doctors have made new

ws out of ribs. Thumbs

ve been. replaced using
the leg
form new arteries for the .
heart and skin and hair

‘transplants are common.

Doctors at Toronto's
Mount Sinai hospital have
created knees for:
transplants out of ‘cartilage
and some from a donor.

However, jointg for limbs

are usually replaced by
artificial parts. Shoulders,
elbows, kes and hip joints
are made of stainless steel
and polyethylene. New

Hospital, failed when the
r recipient, a 19-year-old
‘ Toronto man, died about
thre® weeks after the

the hing transplant team at _ Pancreas small enough to be -
Toronte General, said lung “!planted in the body.
transplants are at the stage ~ Other parts of the body.
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