Show Human Artery Bank To Open New tevI EraIn Era ErqIn EraIn In Cancer r Surgery NEW YORK YORK New New York physicians physicians physicians' physicians physicians' are arc predicting a new era in surgery with the establishment re re- recently recently re- re recently of a human artery bank supplying pieces of arteries for op op- operations operations operations much as a blood bank supplies blood when needed Its treasure now is seven pieces I of arteries totaling 21 inches The i spares can replace damaged de de- defective I f or diseased arteries in living liv liv- living I ing humans They also promise to tomake tomake make 1 possible bold new cancer op op- operations operations operations that cannot be done now n w because arteries arterie arp ar affected and would have to be removed The first such bank was established established established in Boston recently They are expected to spread rapidly to other cities According to physicians the ar ar- arteries arteries ar- ar arteries I teries are taken soon after death from young persons who have no artery diseases or defects Permission Permission Permission sion in granted by the donor before death or is given by relatives The arteries are kept living in a abath abath bath of nutrient fluids but by quick freezing it may be possible to bank arteries arte es for months or years Arteries have been grafted successfully suc suc- successfully successfully in animal experiments after having been kept frozen eight i I months doctors report I IThe IThe The spare artery apparently I doesn't live in the body surgeons said aid Like a bone graft it ap ap- apparently ap- ap apparently is replaced by new I growth from both ends of the living liv liv- living living ing artery The spare sp re supplies a skeleton for this growth Medical men have eye banks and bone banks barks too too- J |