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Thomas Starzl: The Dean of Transplantation |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT |
| Author: Heather B. Hayes |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,939 Words, 18,349 Characters |
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By its very nature, the liver is an anatomical wonder mysterious, challenging, and, even in today's sophisticated medical environment, often misunderstood. Weighing but three or four pounds, it is the body's only multifunctional organ, performing up to 500 metabolic functions essential to digestion and other bodily systems, including the absorption of fat and its conversion to carbohydrate, the regulation of blood's glucose and amino-acid levels, the manufacturing of important proteins, such as albumin and blood coagulants, and the detoxification of poisonous substances.
To a physician, however, a malfunctioning liver is difficult to diagnose and even more difficult to cure. Nearly all of the blood circulating through the body passes through the liver once every two minutes, a fact th...
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...n," says one worker.
But on reflection, Starzl seems to know on some level that despite the controversies and the setbacks, he has done well. There is a glory, he says, that comes with striving, and to him that sums up the promise of transplant surgery. "Losing a battle against a disease," he says, "is not quit so hard to take if you lose while trying, if you have some measure of hope."
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