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Heart recipient gets
possibly fatal illness
Associated Press
HERSHEY, Pa. — A man who re
ceived a human heart after living for
11 days with the Penn State artificial
heart has an inflamed pancreas, a
potentially fatal condition, a medical
spokesman said Wednesday.
Anthony Mandia, who underwent
a heart transplant on Monday, was
listed in critical condition and was
downgraded from stable to unstable,
said Dr. John W. Burnside, a Milton
S. Hershey Medical Center spokes
man.
Doctors had detected elevated lev
els of a digestive enzyme, amylase,
produced by the pancreas before the
transplant.
After the level kept rising, an ul
trasound scan of the 44-year-old pa
tient’s abdomen showed swelling in
the pancreas, and doctors said it in
dicated inflammation.
“It’s very serious; it’s unex
pected,” Burnside said Wednesday
night, adding that pancreatitis is po
tentially fatal.
Doctors had “no real good idea”
why the condition developed, he
said.
To treat the condition, doctors are
collecting and draining stomach se
cretions through a tube, are not al
lowing Mandia any solid food and
are maintaining “careful fluid man
agement.”
Mandia, 44, is on a respirator, and
was placed for a time on kidney di
alysis because of diminished urine
output and elevated potassium levels
in his body, doctors said.
Carl Andrews, another hospital
spokesman, said the heighteneef po
tassium level could stem from the
drug Mandia is getting to prevent
his body from rejecting his new
heart.
In Pittsburgh, Thomas J. Gai-
dosh, who survived four days on a
Jarvik-7 artificial heart, was listed in
serious condition, an improvement
over Tuesday, when he was in crit
ical condition.
Study: Oral contraceptives
don’t increase cancer risk
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A major
study involving more than 4,000
women found that young women
who used oral contraceptives are at
no greater risk of developing breast
cancer than those who never used
the pills, researchers reported
Thursday.
Scientists from the federal Cen
ters for Disease Control and the Na
tional Institutes of Health said the
findings of no increased breast can
cer risk were true regardless of the
age at which women started using
the pills or how long they used them.
“For women less than 45 (years
old), pill use for the last 20 years has
had no effect on the aggregate rate
of breast cancer,” said Dr. Bruce V.
Stadel of the National Institute of
Child Health and Human Devel
opment, the study coordinator.
The study results, published in
the Nov. 2 issue of the British medi
cal journal The Lancet, contrast with
those of two smaller studies pub
lished in 1983 which said there was
increased breast cancer risk asso
ciated with pill use.
The issue of a breast cancer-birth
control pill link has been a point of
disagreement for more than a de
cade, with conflicting studies point
ing either way.
An editorial published in the jour
nal said the new study, despite its
size, may not resolve the issue.
There may be a long latency pe
riod bef ore any increased breast can
cer risk from contraceptive use be
comes evident, said tne editorial,
and future studies are needed.
Hostages will not be surrendered
(continued from page 1)
in Tunis. But Buckley’s body has not
been found, and American officials
have said they cannot confirm the
claim.
Musawi said in an interview
Wednesday that he was not involved
in the kidnappings or in Islamic Ji
had. But his group shares some of
the strident anti-American philoso
phy of the shadowy extremists and
nas similar links with Ayatollah Ru-
hollah Khomeini’s revolutionary
Iran.
“I’m against the kidnapping of in
nocent people,” he said in nis heavily
guarded home in Baalbek, an an
cient Roman town in the Syrian-con
trolled Bekaa Valley of east Leb
anon.
The five missing Americans are a
journalist, an academic, a librarian, a
Roman Catholic priest and a hospital
administrator.
The American hostages are:
• Peter Kilburn, 60, of San Fran
cisco, Calif., librarian at the Ameri
can University of Beirut, missing
since Dec. 3, 1984.
• The Rev. Lawrence Jenco, 50, a
Roman Catholic priest of Joliet, HI.,
kidnapped last Jan. 8.
• 1 erry Anderson, 38, chief Mid
dle East correspondent for The As
sociated Press, a native of Lorain,
Ohio, kidnapped in west Beirut on
March 16.
• David Jacobsen, 54, of Hunt
ington Beach, Calif., director of the
American University Hospital in
Beirut, abducted May 28.
• Thomas Sutherland, 54, of Fort
Collins, Colo., Scottish-born dean of
agriculture at the American Univer
sity, on leave from Colorado State
University. He was kidnapped June
Detroit troubled by Devil’s Night arsonists
Associated Press
DETROIT — At least 175 fires
broke out Wednesday night despite
increased efforts by the city and ci
vilian volunteers to keep Devil’s
Night arsonists from celebrating an
other rite of destruction, the mayor
said.
Mayor Coleman Young said the
blazes, which were reported to police
between 1 a.m. and 10 p.m., were
down 29 percent from the 248 fires
reported at the same time last year.
“I expect that we turned the cor
ner on tnis,” Young told reporters at
Detroit police headquarters. “It’s
been a real mass effort of volunteers.
We think it (the city’s crackdown)
has been a success.”
Young had canceled all leaves for
4,400 city police officers and 1,280
firefighters and put trash collectors,
meter readers and even political ap
pointees on patrol.
“It’s hot, real hot. That’s what
we’ve been hearing,” said a fire de
partment dispatcher in suburban
East Detroit.
“They’ve got all their engines and
ladders committed. It’s keeping
them (Detroit firefighters) very
busy. They haven’t called us, but
we’re waiting,” said the dispatcher,
who did not give his name.
Resident Michael Clark said he
put out a small fire in a vacant lot
across from his home on the city’s
east side about 6:30 p.m.
“It ain’t like it used to be,” said
Clark, 31. “We used to call this ‘gar
bage can night.’ We go around and
turn over garbage cans, throw eggs,
soap up windows, stuff like that.
When you start burning up houses
and garages, it’s crazy.”
The night before Halloween, tra
ditional time of youthful pranks, ex
ploded into an orgy of arson in De
troit two years ago. Overtaxed
firefighters answered 553 calls in the
48 hours before Halloween 1983.
One person died in the fires that
year.
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