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Pastors: Ross King, Scot Stolz, & Worth Whitley BERLIN (AP) — Ten patients with end-stage heart failure were successfully treated with implants of mechanical pumps to rest their hearts while drugs helped repair the damaged organs, a renowned heart sur geon said Monday. It took an average of six months on the pump lor the hearts to recover, and the patients since have returned to work. Sir Magdi Yacoub said at the annual meeting of the European Society ot Cardiology. Their hearts have been func tioning normally for an average of a year, with one patient reach ing four years, Yacoub said. “Eve been around for 35 years and this is the most excit ing thing I’ve seen in my whole career,” said Yacoub, a pioneer ing heart transplant surgeon. “You have someone who’s so sick he is emaciated, then you have him running in the park, playing football, or whatever.” Colleagues,while impressed, said it was too early to tell whether the patients have been cured. “It’s going to take more than 10 patients to really see where this fits,” said Dr. Sidney Smith, medical director of the American Heart Association. “But it is a potential solution to a major problem — in the United States alone more than 40,000 patients need transplan tation and there are only 2,500 donor organs." Yacoub reported results on a study of 19 patients with end- stage heart failure, which means their hearts had almost stopped working. Most of them were in their 50s or 60s and had suffered from progressive heart failure for many years. All the patients had enlarged hearts from their disease — their hearts bulked up to try to com pensate for the damage but only became less efficient. Other organs also deteriorated. The patients’ only hope was a heart transplant, but they were taken off the waiting list because they were too ill. ,'hree patients were too sick and died early on in the study from multi-organ failure. Another one died from an infection. I’ve been around for 35 years and this is the most exciting thing I 've seen in my whole career. n just s “Unloading believe, is not enough,'! said, adding that he © patients regular dnigs sc heart failure, but at ver doses the I heart would not norm* able to handle if it also pump bltxxl around theb; »hn rV Sir M< Y.i< heart ti Yac pumps remain them tl to nrve The in iniz art Matt in’s job pum take: around heart a the :han Typhoon claims 88 lives, 70 missin; JERUSA! I Bow Palest return to the Prime Mini: I Hid Monday uid repair rl The Palei heart contmues be^ a | t horities i >ps pumping bloui attending int alont Hssin said. M “He’s fre Hme back,’ Kre told. 1 “We hav fo some tin Halizing tha Hit here, p ^■oose a nev H Palestinia Hlled Shar ^Kcused him H Israel ch< for nearly tw . ©Ik "uraging Hiling to cn Hdestinians ized Arafat’ Hank, and ct Hid army op [Hrhind the v H With few ^Kinfincd to Hank town t lH>rces, with |Hs compoun H Also Mo Hilled an a Hrenades at H:cording to Hndition of I Soldiers v ti> m near the >ub W ihli heart rccov much beu is been prepare the I ulation dutio ■tl another <j art muscle u; tat strategy.« :> explant !*. wo-thirds 1 tl Yacoub. a He SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After spending two nights by candlelight, tens of thousands of South Koreans heaved shovels Monday to clear mud and debris from homes devastated by the worst typhoon to hit the country in 40 years. The government's National Disaster Prevention and Countermeasures Headquarters said at least 88 people were killed and 70 missing in flash floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Rusa over the weekend. Authorities were trying to confirm reports by relatives and villagers that another 29 people were swept away by flood waters or tit buried in landslides. f»< Local media gave higher death tolls rang- 2^ ing frdm 132 to 187. Tl North Korean media reported “scores of people” were killed there by the storm. Tt Before landing on South Korea, ih typhoon brushed Okinawa. Japan. pullifL two U.S. marines under waves on Friday, the m The missing marines were presumed dead. Korea Japan Coast Guard official Masayoshi than 8 Irantma said Monday. No U.S. Marines media officer Brad Gordon killed said Monday a search-and-recovery opera- house; Ok Tokyo U.S’ n Rii. rlicr .is l ante CpI. Richard- 1 Lance CpI. 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