4—The Daily Collegian Friday, June 27,1986
Faith Cresswell talks with her husband, Robert, who has been sustained by the Penn State artlfical heart for 104 days
now. With the Cresswells is Dr. John Burnside, associate vice president for health affairs at the University’s Hershey
Medical Center.
Second recipient
eligible for donor
By KATHI DODSON
Collegian Science Writer
Robert Cresswell celebrated his 100th day on the
Penn State heart last Tuesday.
On March 17, Cresswell became the second recipient
of the Penn State pneumatic artificial heart after his
body rejected a human donor heart he had received
seven days earlier.
Dr. G. Victor Rohrer, associate dean for patient care
at the University’s Hershey Medical Center, said
Cresswell remains in critical condition but is eligible
for a donor human heart.
Cresswell has been on the transplant list since
May 12. He was not eligible for a transplant before
May 12 because of kidney problems that required daily
dialysis.
However, some problems have arisen in trying to
find a donor heart, Rohrer said.
Cresswell weighs between 180 and 190 pounds, so a
possible donor’s weight must be within 25 to 30 pounds
of Cresswell’s weight, Rohrer said.
Cresswell also has an unusually high antibody count,
which greatly increases the risk of donor heart reject
ion. A very close match must be made between
Cresswell’s blood protein and the donor’s. Such a
precise match can be very difficult if not impossible,
Rohrer said.
The high antibody count could be a result of natural
allergies or of Cresswell’s previous rejection of a
transplanted heart, Rohrer said.
“I’m concerned that we can find a suitable heart,”
Rohrer said.
Howard Nathan, director of the Delaware Valley
Transplant Program, an organization which locates
transplantable organs for hospitals like Hershey, said:
“We’ve never been in this position before. We never
had a candidate who was so large or had such a high
antibody count before.”
Three donor hearts have become available since
Cresswell was put on the donor list. However, none of
the three were suitable for transplantation into Cres
swell’s chest, Nathan said.
The length of time Cresswell is sustained on the Penn
State heart will not effect his chances for a transplant,
Rohrer said.
“I don’t know of any reason six months from-now
that he wouldn’t be a candidate,” Rohrer said. Howev
er,' he added that the longer Cresswell is on the heart,
the greater are the chances chronic infection will
develop.
There is a possiblity that no transplant will be found
for Cresswell, “But we aren’t considering that,” Rohr
er said, adding that the artifical heart has sustained
experimental animals for three times longer than
Cresswell has been sustained.
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The length of time Cresswell has been on the heart
should not cause a backlog of cases, Rohrer said. Use
of the Penn State heart is an experimental procedure,
not a routine operation. If implantation of the artificial
heart ever became routine, problems could occur, he
said.
No one has been denied a heart resulting from the
length of time Cresswell has been on the heart, Rohrer
said. Other Penn State hearts are available if the need
for another artifical heart should arise, he added.
Potential candidates for the Penn State heart cannot
be screened because of high antibody count or other
factors that may make a transplant difficult, Nathan
said.
“The potential is always there that this patient can
survive and you never know if the next donor might'be
it,” Nathan said.
“One doesn’t have a week to decide if the Penn State
heart will be used,” Rohrer added, and screening
patients could be very time consuming and difficult.
Cresswell’s spirits continue to improve after a period
of depression following a stroke he suffered on May 27.
Cresswell’s stroke was caused by a blood clot which
had formed in the artificial heart.
“The longer a patient is on the artificial heart, the
greater the opportunity for such an incident to occur,”
Rohrer said.
As a result of the stroke, Cresswell had difficulty in
speaking except to answer questions. However,
through daily speech therapy, he has begun to initiate
his own speech, Rohrer said.
Cresswell is being treated with an anticoagulant to
decrease the risk of blood clot formation. However,
such treatment could pose a problem when trying to
control bleeding during operations and transplants.
Rohrer said the specific anticoagulant being used to
treat Cresswell Coumadin is easily reversed with
other medication in the event that a transplant is
found.
Cresswell has also developed some drainage prob
lems and local infection around one of the tubes in his
chest, Rohrer said.
“This is natural any time patients have foreign
material inside their bodies,” Rohrer said. The tube is
used to pump air, which causes the heart to pump
blood.
Rohrer added that although the blood clot did form in
the heart, the pumping mechanism itself has per
formed perfectly over the last 100 days.
Cresswell continues to ride an exercise bike and to
get out of bed a few times a day, Rohrer said. His wife,
Faith visits him daily.
“She’s a real trooper,” Rohrer said, adding that
Faith told him, “It’s time for a miracle to happen,
we’re ready for a heart.” .
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talented minority high school students.
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McKeesport drops
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By WINSLOW M. MASON JR.
Collegian Staff Writer
University officials who earlier announced
plans to place the Minority Advanced Place
ment Program at six Commonwealth cam
puses this summer may be limited to just five.
Larry Woods, admissions counselor and mi
nority recruiter at McKeesport Campus, said
yesterday that because the campus, located
near Pittsburgh, could not enroll enough stu
dents in the program before the estimated mid-
April deadline, the program won’t be offered
there this summer.
Woods said two factors a low number of
applicants and a number of applicants who did
not meet program requirements contributed
to the enrollment shortage.
The program offers three credits of free
summer coursework to academically talented
minority high school juniors or rising seniors
who have passed the program’s admission
requirements a 950 Scholastic Aptitude Test
score and an above-average grade point aver
age.
“Once they complete the program with an A
or B, they have until Summer 1987 to take
another course for free,” said Dorian 0. Bur
ton, coordinator of minority programs for the
College of Human Development.
“We would like to have had the program,”
Woods said, expressing his disappointment
over the lack of students. “The important thing
is to give a quality program. We look forward
to providing the program next year.”
Burton said the program is designed to
enhance minority enrollment not just at Uni
versity Park, but throughout the entire Penn
State system.
“When I say minority, I’m talking about
Blacks, Hispanics and Native and Asian Amer
icans,” Burton said.
Penn State, along with Pennsylvania’s other
state-owned or state-related schools, is under
federal mandate to increase its black student
enrollment by 1987.
Although the University hoped to enroll 572
first-time black Pennsylvania freshmen this
fall, official reports released last week indicate
that about 25 percent fewer black Pennsylvania
students have accepted admission offers this
year as compared to last year.
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