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- <text id=92TT2040>
- <title>
- Sep. 14, 1992: Health:Et Cetera
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Sep. 14, 1992 The Hillary Factor
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 20
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Et Cetera
- </hdr><body>
- <p>TRANSPLANT TROUBLE
- </p>
- <p> The still anonymous 35-year-old man who received a baboon's
- liver in June is not doing well. The problem is infection, not
- rejection. Dye injected into his bile ducts to make them show up
- on X-rays apparently caused the infection, and the patient's
- immune system, weakened by anti rejection drugs, could not
- easily fight it. High doses of antibiotics reduced the
- resulting fever. But when tests showed the liver was excreting
- too little bile, the man's condition was downgraded to critical.
- A similar transplant on another patient was postponed until
- doctors resolve the situation.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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