RCH@uunet.UU.NET (05/27/90)
* I received more info on this topic, and here is my revised message
to sci.med.aids.....-rh
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CNN reports that a Dr. Logan at Georgia Baptist Hospital in
Atlanta treated Carl Crawford, a man with AIDS, with a procedure
called Extra-Corporeal Hyper-thermia. In a five hour procedure,
blood was taken from Crawford's body and heated for two hours at
110 degress Farenheit. The blood was then gradually cooled and
returned to his body.
Dr. Logan claimes the results were immediately apparent.
Crawford's lymph nodes returned to normal and his KS lesions
faded away. For three months now he has tested negative for HIV
antibodies. Dr. Logan is being very cautious about interpreting
the results of this one case.
Does anyone have any more information about this? Are
there many medical procedures that heat blood like this? Is there
any research on the effects of heating blood and returning it to
the body for other diseases/viruses/infections? (Or could this be
another situation like bone-marrow transplant, disappointing
because of the 60% mortality rate from that procedure alone?)
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