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ednesday, September 17, 1975 THE CflhCINNATI ENQUIRER 37 Re jection No Big oitj Of Kidney Transplanters failure," said the doctor. "We have two physician associates and four fellows who are involved in this, and they receive grant support. We think we have made some contributions toward prolonging life." i il' rv) Al As recently as January of this year, Dr. West, in cooperation with Dr. James McAdams and Dr.

Paul McEnery of the Children's Hospital Research Foundation, released the results of the treatment study of eight patients suffering a specific Bright's Disease, know as memeranoprolilerative nephritis, a variety they had identified througji research in 1965. It is estimated that an average of 50 of the patients with the disease suffer kidney failure within 10 years and have to have a transplant or go on a kidney machine. Treatment by Dr. Westt's team with the drug prednisone has prevented tllie disease's progress to either of these extremes. 1 "We really don't know the fundamental mechanism of the disease or hov the drug works, but It helps," he said.

"We have not been working with a control group to compare how, these patients' progress compared to untreated patients, primarily because we do not have enough patients and because we ase convinced the therapy is of value." Another research team in the eastern part of the country has been experimenting with the drug, without the same success of the local team, but the dose reportedly is lower than the level used here. FUNDING IS a major problem for research in both the areas of transplants and methods to treat kidney diseases. Yet, the need for research in these areas continues. Statistics indicate that in a oiue million population, four children a year will die of taidney failure. A high percentage of those would be suitable for transplants.

An estimated 50 of the children that require transplants were born with deformities. i "We're trying to cure the diseases before transplants become necessary," said Dr. West. "But, there always will be, at least in the foreseeable future, a group of patients who will have to bave transplants to survive because they were born witb defective kidneys. Until we learn how to prevent deformities, there will be no solution other than transplants." By IRENE WRIGHT Of The Enquirer Staff i Si8nincant advancements have been made in child Kidney transplants since the procedure was first undertaken here 10 years ago at Children's Hospital Medical Center, but the need continues for a breakthrough to prevent rejection.

The youngest local patient, nine months old at the time of his transplant, is now a little over one year old and is awaiting his second transplant. Some patients have rejected up to five times. "Every year, some center around the world describes a means of treating rejection, but we haven't ever been, convinced that they've changed anything," said Dr. Clark West, University of Cincinnati professor of pediatrics working in the Children's Hospital Research Foundation. He pioneered the field as part of a team that headed up the first transplants here when Cincinnati became the second center in the country after Denver to undertake the procedure.

Sixty-seven kidney transplants have been made on 58 patients at Children's Hospital; of the 58, 19 have died. The statistics indicate a successful transplantation program, considering that without transplants the 48 survivors almost certainly would not be alive today. "THE MORTALITY rate is decreasing throughout the country because when kidneys cease to function because they are being rejected, surgeons remove them and use a kidney machine instead of waiting until the last minute. "There has been the development of medicines that prevent rejection," explained Dr. West, "but they are not totally successful.

Just as many kidneys are being rejected due to the immune reaction, it's a rare patient who doesnt reject at least once." 1 The adult kidney transplant program in Cincinnati 'Is conducted at General and Christ hospitals. Recalling the first transplant case here In June, 1965, when only children were Involved, Dr. West commented, "No other hospital seemed able to mount a program like this and we were doubtful we could. We went to Denver and learned the procedure and post operative care. We had patients who we had been taking care of for about 15 years, and they needed a transplant if they were to survive.

So we started." The first patient, an eight-year-old boy with a chronic kidney disease which had resulted in deformity of his kidney, received a kidney from his mother. "His father sat in the waiting room with both his son and his wife in the operating room that was not easy to do, particularly in those days," recalled Dr. West. During the youngster's post-operative care, calls were made to Denver quite often with procedure questions. The boy, now in high school, is in good health today.

ANOTHER, MORE recent case involved a young boy who continued to suffer a recurring kidney disease in a transplanted kidney. He has had three transplants, the latest last December. The disease may now have "burned itself out," because there is no evidence of it recurring. "He probably represents an expenditure by the public of something like $75,000 to $100,000 for hospitalization because his family is on relief," said Dr. West.

"Obviously, this points out that it is a very expensive procedure and the way to go is to learn how to take care of the original disease so it doesn't produce kidney failure this would save the pubic money, save the children the travail of the transplant and save the parents the worry of it." Although known for his work with Dr. Luis Gonzalez and Dr. Lester Martin in making the first transplants here and for subsequent efforts in the field, Dr. West's primary drive is to develop methods to treat kidney diseases. As a young physician from Upper New York State who had completed hospital residency in Ann Arbor, and a two-year tour of duty with the Army, Dr.

West came to Cincinnati In 1949 with the goal of staying in acadmic medicine rather than going into practice. His initial Interest was in researching how the kidney functions, but after seven years, he turned his attention to finding answers to kidney diseases. "AS THE years have gone by, we have done more and more research in the diseases that cause kidney Yi iaiaiiiiw Dr. Clark West heads search for answers Charge Of False Arrest Rebounds On Motorist Longview Investigation Pressed By Union Chief A claim of false arrest against the Cincinnati Police Division has resulted In the filing of a charge of falsification against the plaintiff. Jerry Ball, 19, 2224 Shasta Place, Westwood, retained an attorney and filed a complaint against the City of Cincinnati after he was arrested in early June on a bench warrant that was subsequently dismissed in court.

Facility Means Assistant City PrAsecutor Bob Johnstone explained how the case has developed: Ball was stopped for speeding on May 13 and given a citation to court. A speeding citation gives certain, drivers who have not had moving violations in the past 12 months the option orf appearing in court on the assigned date or pleading guilty and paying a set fee within seven days. Ball's' court date was May 27. He did not show up for court that day and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest Ball was stopped again for speeding on June 4. A computer check revealed the bench warrant and he was arrested.

When he appeared in court the next day he said he had paid the ticket on May 30. The judge cancelled the bench warrant when the Clerk of Court's records verified Ball's statement about paying the ticket. When Ball brought his complaint against the city, Hugh Frost, police legal advisor, was assigned to investigate. He said he located both the court's and Ball's copies of the original speeding ticket and a comparison showed that Ball's had been altered. Frost said the date of the occurrence on the violator's copy had been changed from May 13 to May 24.

This allowed ior the tag to still be accepted as a "paydut" on May 30 when Ball was actually 10 days past his limit. Frost also said he discovered that Ball would not hawe been eligible to pay out the tag since he had received "several" moving violations within the past 12 months. Police charged Ball with falsification, a first-degree misdemeanor, based on the evidence uncovered by B'rost. Ball was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday to answer the charge, but failed to show up and another bench warrant has been issued against him, authorities said. Enquirer (Tom Hubbard) Photo I Got It! Brighter Hopes For Children Thirteen mentally retarded children will be getting a "new lease on life" today at the Resident Home for the Mentally Retarded, 3030 West Fork Rd.

Their arrival from the Orient State Institution for the Mentally Retarded at Columbus, Ohio, marks the completion of a $1.4 million expansion project for the West Fork Road facility. All from the Greater Cincinnati area, the 13 will join 37 other mentally retarded children aged 12 to 16 already at the home in occupying the expansion project's three new living units and educational building. "These children are coming from an institution to a home environment facility, and it will mean a new lease on life for them," said Phillip N. Royse, executive director of the Resident Home for the Mentally Retarded. "They'll get used to living in this home environment before we find real homes for them." The home's expansion, which started in December, 1973, more than quadruples the number of mentally retarded children the facility can serve and is the first development in Ohio of a new concept for care and training of the mentally retarded.

By MARVIN BEARD Enquirer Reporter The union representing more than 300 employees at Longview State Hospital almost certainly will ask for a state legislative investigation into conditions at the mental institution, a state union official said Tuesday. Herschel Sigall, state director of Council 4455, Communication Workers of America (CWA), said the executive board of the council already has passed a resolution asking for the investigation. "The resolution will be presented to our membership at our annual state convention next weekend in Columbus," Sigall said. "AND WHILE I cannot speak for the membership in advance of a vote, I am almost certain that the resolution will be adopted. "We are extremely concerned about the conditions at Longview.

Something must be done." Sigall said he had talked to House Majority Leader William L. Mallory (D-Cincinnati) and that Mallory was "very concerned about the matter and very receptive to the resolution" for a legislative investigation. Representatives of the union called a press conference in Cincinnati recently and said then that patients at Longview live in filth, eat NIOSH'City' Building Faces Condemnation Cincinnati Building code violations against the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) installation at 1014 Broadway are so serious the building may be condemned in 30 days, Council-woman Helen Hinckley says. So Sen. Robert Taft Jr.

(R-Ohio) was asked by Mrs. Hinckley Tuesday to prod the federal General Services Administration (GSA) to approve funds to repair the building. Mrs. Hinckley pointed out the NIOSH building currently under construction in Corryville will not be completed until 1981. While a large portion of the NIOSH operation in Cincinnati will be moving temporarily to the Robert A.

Taft Center, 4676 Columbia Pky. and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 5555 Ridge certain experiments at the Broadway building cannot be moved until next May, she said. GSA is reluctant to approve funds to fix up the installation on Broadway because it will only be used for a few more months, she said. And the City Building Department will not grant a time extension on the violations, Taft was told. FOUR-YEAR-OLD Jennifer Ball of Mt.

Airy carefully maps out strategy to win a prize at the "I Got It" booth at the Northwest Country Fair held recently on the Groesbeck Improvement Association grounds. The fail1 offered several events, Including a parade down Colerain Avenue. Colerain Savings Firm Robbed At Pistol Point with cockroaches and generally are subjected to inhumane treatments THOMAS S. Grogan. acting superintendent of the hospital, said then that the hospital hasa problemmany problems but "I intend to shape this hospital up.

Episcopate Consider Gay Plea By BEN L. KAUFMAN Enquirer Reporter Bedeviled by differences about which sex their priests may be, Episcopalians in Southern Ohio are being asked to consider the merits of homosexuality. The call comes in the official newspaper of the diocese, Interchange, in a signed editorial by the editor, layman Worley Rodehaver.y' "Now it is time we Christians, both homosexual and heterosexual, begin to honestly discuss the meaning of human sexuality within the Christian context," Rodehaver wrote in the current issue, of Interchange. Bishop John M. Krumm's secretary Tuesday said the editorial was generating some reaction, most of it by telephone and not all of it negative.

THE EDITORIAL appeared under the headline, "On Homosexuality," and reported, in part, Rodehaver's feelings after attending a national convention of Episcopal homosexuals recently in Chicago. He began by attacking the existing situation as he sees it: "Homosexuality, whenever mentioned, is likely to cause somesort of response or reaction. It can range from voiced hatred or fear to confusion, but very seldom among the large heterosexual majority does the response or reaction seem to be one of concern or of (Christian) love." To find out what Integrity, a national publication by and for gay Episcopalians, was saying, he subscribed, he said, and when Integrity called a convention, Rodehaver and his wife, Margaret, went. The editor said he wanted to find out what the gay caucus may flo at next year's General Convention of the Episcopal Church. He had heard "homosexuality would be an issue Familiar with the traditional teaching that homosexuality is a sin, he said, he went to the convention in St.

James Cathedral "with a great deal of hesitation. I dldix't have the slightest idea what would happen, but because of my I could certainly conjure up a lot." Integrity has moved from magazine to organization and Cincinnati is where one chapter has opened in the last year, Rodehaver told his readers. HE AND his wife found the more than 200 at the convention "to be very warm, very accepting and loving to us and to each other. I personally feel they are sincere about being Christian and Episcopalian within the context of their lirestyte. Rodehaver also said, "During the last year, I have read much about homosexuality and it strikes, me rather peculiar that even though Christians have persecuted homosexuals for centuries, they still survive either ln the closet (a term used by homosexuals to Indicate openly they are homosexual), or out." Bishop Krumm and his senior staff were not available Tuesday for com-jnent on the editorial.

2 Boys, 2 Girls Win Baby Show COLERAIN man armed with a revolver escaped with an undetermined amount of cash from the First North West Savings and Loan, 8045 Colerain at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Later, authorities said the man's car was spotted by Springdale police on 1-275, and a chase at speeds of over 100 mph ensued. But police could not apprehend the man. The bandit had entered a rear door of the office and asked a female clerk to cash a check for him.

When asked if he had an account at the company, he drew a revolver, Teamster's Cooper Declines Candidacy George Cooper, a business agent for Teamsters Local 100, said Tuesday he is not a candidate for secretary-treasurer of the local. "Several members asked me to run, but I have decided not to," Cooper said. Members of Local 100 will meet September 28 to voice their opinions on a new secretary-treasurer to replace Ira Farmer, Patrolman Herbert West, Hamilton County Sheriff's Patrol, reported. The woman lay on the floor and the bandit entered the office. He ordered the manager to lie on the floor, then fled with money from a cash drawer, West reported.

Loan Fund Board Sets Open House The Community Development Revolving Loan Fund (CDRLF) board of directors will hold an open house from 7-10 p.m. today in the Uptown Towers community room, 416 Ninth St. Board Chairman Charles A. Berry will welcome visitors, and secretary William F. Bunting will explain CDRLF's role.

CDRLF was founded in May, 1974, as part of Cincinnati's Model Cities Program to provide loans to Neighborhood Development Corporations for high-risk projects in Mt. Auburn, Over-The-Rhine and the West End. It now is seeking to expand its operation throughout the city. ton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Overton, 8390 Bobolink Mt. Healthy, 1-2 years; Erin Kern, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Michael Kern, 3474 Blue Creek Erlanger, 2-3 years, and Kevin Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Martin, 5733 W.

Grove Bridgetown, 3-4 years. Third place winners were: Christopher Moffitt, son 'of Mr. and Mrs. Michael 1007 Highway Covington, six months to one year; Sarah Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas A. Young, 5674 Kirby 1-2 years; Kelly Rae McCabe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McCabe, 12135 Henderson Sharon ville, 2-3 years, and Jayme King, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Nobal King, 1701 Collinsdaile Mt. Washington, 3-4 years. Two boys and two girls were winners of first place honors in the four age group divisions of the Cincinnati Zoo's annual baby show. They were Jonathan Breen, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Timothy Breen, 3310 Queen City six month to one year; Jennifer Earls, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Earls, 1304 Morten Mt. Lookout, 1-2 years; Jay-son P.

Saylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Saylor, 4423 Orchard Deer Park, 2-3 years, and Shelly Ahlers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ahlers, 6420 Simon 3-4 years.

Second place winners in judging at the zoo September 6 and 13 were: Tracey Severance, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Severance, 5784 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, six months to one year; Avinne Over SECKATARY HAWKINS Interesting? Very! By Robert Franc Schulkers ff it's Only the i can read what's CW well.wcll! Sv ft Things CLOSE TO ijn on that (S that certainly WV' HIM THAT HE AWAYOVCRON ft Cffi 'S JDR. can't see QWijXih the hill jv -rfA THERE'S SOMETHING HI, I CAN TELL THAT YOU BOYS I STRANGE ABOUT DAVID? NORMAN "A HAVE BEEN WONDERING ABOUT NORMAN ALWAYS DAVlDMCfiT ItOPLE THINK leads him! ilr(Mmt J' HE Blin0 but he isn't! ml KSnri W0 He CAN SEE FARTHER fllES boys knew NOW THAT IT WAS THE GIANT THAT HAD frightened norman and david away from cliff Cave Shadow and I MET THEM WHILE WE WERE IM OUT HIKING Tooof- Nor TrtcfS re of.