51. The surgeon says he has no idea how a family could survive on such an amount. 52. The surgery began by removing the small muscles from the severed hand, reducing the chance of a toxin release or infection, the surgeon said. 53. The surgeon said he could not be sure which one he had used, but Mantle had another idea. 54. The surgeons said that the procedure went more smoothly than it had in the many times they had practiced it in animals over the last three years. 55. The surgeon says an altered test report and prodding by a colleague led him to mistakenly take out the healthy lung. 56. The surgeon says he does not know how he got the virus. 57. The surgeon says there is no evidence yet that the method will work in humans, but he is pushing to do so eventually. 58. The transplant went well after some initial difficulties with scar tissue from an earlier gall bladder surgery, the surgeon said. 59. There were concerns even when surgeons said he was out of danger and moved him to a two-room suite, with one room reserved for her. 60. Those concerns faded when surgeons said the seven-and-a-half hour bypass operation was a success. |