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plained reason) is pinched into two
parts as it enters the uterus. This
happens rarely.
By genetic manipulation, the
embryo splitting offers two main
advantages. First, it increases the
potential number of offspring per
flush. Second, producing
genetically identical twins could
have a positive influence on the
cost and time required to conduct
progeny testing. Progeny testing
amounts to a five year investment
in which a breeder’s money is tied
up in valuable stock with A 1
producers.
Wolff presently has 300 bulls in
programs found in more than a
dozen foreign countries and many
of the more notable studs in this
country- ABS, Sire Power, Atlantic
Breeder, L A B C, Worldwide,
Golden Genes and many more.
Through genetic engineering, time
saved is money earned.
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Split Embryo Calves
Embryo splitting, flushing,
implanting and marketing of
superior Holsteins is routine on the
Wolff farm. However, the donation
of the valuable twin calves to the
transplant program was made for
another even more important and
unrelated reason.
This is the second part of the
story.
The Wolffs, Dennis and Lois
want to make the public aware of
the critical and chronic shortage of
organ donors. A donor organ holds
the precious gift of life for
critically ill patients with diseased
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Dennis and Lois are painfully
aware of what a donor organ
menas. Their 19-month-old baby.
Nicholas, was diagnosed as having
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The Wolffs have traveled from
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hoping to find a hospital that could
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for an operation. But, two factors
blocked a quick solution; Nicholas
was not yet critical and there is a
lack of suitable donors of his age
and size.
This age group is also the most
safety monitored of our society and
therefore are a rare donor source.
Only one hospital placed
Nicholas at the top of their tran
splant list, Minnesota Hospital and
Clinic of Minneapolis.
The family kept a constant
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call from this hospital or any of the
others they had contacted. On May
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came to an end. A call from the
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Six hours later, Nicholas was in
the Minneapolis hospital being
prepared for surgery. After an
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eight hour operation, the little
transplant patient emerged from
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A week after the operation,
Nicholas was perched in a little red
wagon roaming the hospital halls
with only the inconvenience of an
intravenous tube. “He is active,
walking around and seems v.ery
normal,” a report his father was
happy to call back to Penn
sylvania.
Baby Wolff will be kept in the
hospita l lor a couple of weeks to
monitor rejection and infection,
both routine ailments associated
with the transplant. When
medication is regulated to the
surgeons satisfaction, Nicholas
can return home.
The donor liver was from a 13-
month-old infant who died in a
Memorial Day car crash in
Colorado. It was obtained through
the St. Paul chapter of the
American Red Cross.
Through the donor promotion
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Helen was born and lived on a
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In 1940 her family moved to
Berwick, where she finished
school, married and raised a
family. “My husband’s
business did not lend itself to
rural living, so my farming
background lay dormant until
several years ago,” Helen said.
Although her first sales were
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stories for the Harrisburg
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her favorite subjects in a farm
setting. “Having lived in what I
call the ‘dark ages’ of farming,
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computer age where some
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the manure pit and all points in
between,” Helen notes.
Draft horses are one of
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they have learned that
professionals such as nurses and
doctors are often reluctant or lack
training in the method by which
the family of a possible donor can
be approached. For instance, if a
young child has been declared
brain dead because of an accident,
the tremendous emotion at that
time for both the family and
hospital staff is overwhelming.
New York state has a law
making it mandatory for hospitals
to have trained people on their
staff for just this situation.
Pennsylvania has introduced a
similar bill which is presently in
the Health and Welfare Committee
of the Senate. The Wolffs urge
people to write their state
legislators to support House Bill 90.
Experience has shown that those
families who agree to organ
donation from a deceased loved
one experience great comfort and
consolation as time passes. It’s a
therapy that cannot be provided by
any other means.
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