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Page 6 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1975 Briscoe survives killer disease HOUSTON (AP) — Gov. Dolph Briscoe is working vigorously after apparently recovering fully from an ailment that usually kills more than half its victims. The governor s physician. Dr. C. B. Jackson of San Antonio, said Briscoe was hospitalized last month with an ailment called acute tubular necrosis, a kidney disorder Jackson called “very serious. ” Dr. Wadi H. Suki, a professor ol medicine at Houston s Methodist Hospital and an expert in renal ill ness, said the ailment is, in fact, very serious indeed. He said about 55 per cent of the patients with acute tubular necrosis die of the ill ness. Briscoe was afflicted suddenly last Dec. 6 while flying from Hous ton to Kansas City for the national convention of the Democratic Party. The plane turned around, landed at San Antonio and the governor went into Nix Hospital for treat ment. Crown & Anchor Inn Briscoe left the hospital after only a few days and is now working a full schedule. His ailment, says Dr. Suki, causes a severe loss or sometimes a total shutdown of kidney function. The body, as a result, builds up fluids and wastes. The feet, hands and face can become bloated and swollen. Untreated, the patient could eventually drown in his own poisons. The disorder progresses in dis tinct phases. Output from the kid neys, which normally filter out im purities, concentrates them and then discharges them as urine, drops sharply to less than two pints daily. Dr. Suki said this first phase is the most dangerous. “Some go into shock from the condition and the mortality rate is then quite high, perhaps 70 per cent,” he said. If the patient survives the initial phase, which may last 10 days or so, the kidneys will start healing them selves. Urine output increases to three quarts or more daily as the kidneys work to cleanse the blood. Recovery has started, but “the patient is by no means out of the woods,” said Dr. Suki. The fun place in the Country Now Appearing in The Living Room Fiddlin’ Faron Evans and Doc Mon thru Fri 8-12 Saturday Free Hors d’oeuvres IV2 miles past E. Bypass on Huntsville Hwy. Mexican university works with Aggies The Texas Engineering Experi ment Station along with the Na tional Science Foundation is financ ing the U.S. half of a joint engineer ing research program with Mexico. One of the principal investigators of the project at A&M is Dr. J. L. Stone who has just returned from a year’s teaching at the Instituto Na tional de Astrofisica, Optica y Elec- tronica (INAOE) in Puebla. While in Mexico, Stone and his counterpart, Dr. Jorge Agraz, laid out a cooperative research program. “The most important thing is not this research program,” he said. “We re seeking long term relation ships with the Mexican universities by establishing programs that will be mutually beneficial to the par ticipants. “We hope to establish an ex change program involving both fa culty and students,” Stone added. In the initial part of the program. Stone helped establish a solid-state electronics teaching and research program — mainly in the area of integrated circuits. The research program was de signed jointly, to be conducted col- laboratively. Research will be sup ported by and conducted in the two countries on an approximately equal basis. Patients are usually released from the hospital when kidney function, evidenced by the amount and chemistry of the urine, has stabilized, said Dr. Suki, “but the patient continues to require man agement.” Hospital stay time can vary, he said, based on several factors, in cluding the care the patient could receive at home. Briscoe was re leased after four days in Nix. “The kidneys will heal over a period of time with proper care,” said Dr. Suki. And a major element of that care is curing or avoiding the root cause of the disorder. Acute tubular necrosis can be brought on, said Dr. Suki, by shock, a medical term which involves the decrease in blood volume. It can be caused by a loss of fluid, such as in bleeding, by poor heart function or from the effects of infec tion. Individual reactions to nep hrotoxic drugs, such as some an tibiotics, can also bring on the ail ment, he said. Dr. Suki said that unless the root problem which precipitated the kidney ailment is identified and controlled, patients can experience more episodes of acute tubular nec rosis, perhaps with fatal effects. Briscoe, according to statements from his office, “has made a com plete recovery and there is no dam age to the kidneys. The fact that he is working full, active days, said Dr. Suki, indicates his kidney function “is either stable or improving and is adequate to sus tain his life.” Save 25% on Sears , ..... illfe heavy- duty detergent! s* “-w , .. Is® HEAyrOUTV laiindrj DETERGENT * f. sssasw*'’" ♦SUPER CONCtWfctftf HOW SUOStNG mr~ Regular $1.29 box 3-lb. box Economical — use only Vz cup for a full load of wash Super-concentrated Low-sudsing Non-phosphate Sears has you nee( , t0 C | ean up an( | fjx at dorm, apartment or house! Great Buys! 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The unusual family tree sprouted this week when Air Force Sgt. Eugene Ervin, 23, learned he is being shipped to Japan in a few months. But what to do with his two chil dren whose custody he gained in a recent divorce? Sister Sharon had been helping Ervin raise the chil dren but Uncle Sam said Miss Strickland could not accompany the trio to Japan unless it could be shown she was single and most im portant, Ervin’s legal dependent. Ervin went to court and adopted his older sister as his daughter. Dist. Court Judge Don Lane granted the adoption. “This was much simpler than the adoptionofa minor because the adult can give consent to be adopted, ” Judge Lane said. Lane agreed the arrangement would best benefit Ervin’s children So now Ervin, his children and his daughter-sister are packing for Japan. One problem remains, however If Sharon ever has children of her own, will they call Ervin Uncle Daivid or Grandpa? DA here p tomak womei sage e; Zoologist observes research Albritton gets nevi position Assi is wor presen Dist. i Aim bawdy guise ( “It’s whole C A New Zealand zoologist. Dr. George Alexander Knox, head of the Department of Zoology at the University of Canterbury in Christ church, is visiting A&M for a six- month stay, presenting seminars and observing TAMU marine re search. Dr. Knox is on sabbatical leave from his university. He decided to spend time at TAMU because “... of the very good grouping of marine research and coastal environmental studies that are going on here. ” “I’m looking at the research going on — the approaches and techni ques — because of a developing in terest in estuarine and coastal ecol ogy,” he explained. “We still have time to prevent and plan in New Zealand, so that we can avoid the problems that have occurred else where in the development of coastal areas.” The range of subjects for the seminars to be presented during the fall include Antarctic Research, Is land Ecology, Marine Ecology and Estuarine Ecology. The subject areas range from the Antarctic, Arc tic, New Zealand to “A scientist’s impression of Red China, ” gained as a member of a New Zealand scien tific delegation to China. Ford D. Albritton, Jr., who just completed a six-year term on the Texas A&M University System Board of Directors, has been ap pointed by Gov. 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