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- THE WEEK, Page 20HEALTH & SCIENCEEt Cetera
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- TRANSPLANT TROUBLE
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- 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.
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