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Study finds U-M success rate
for transplants about average
by Jeff Olson
Daily Science Writer
The U-M Medical Center's
transplant success rate is slightly
higher for heart transplants and
slightly lower for liver transplants
compared to the national average, a
recent government study found.
But Robert Merion, chief of the
U-M division of transplantation, said
the study results are flawed and do
not accurately gauge differences be-
tween the U-M and national
averages.
"Statistically, we have not done
any worse or better than expected,"
Merion said. "Furthermore, the study
only takes the grossest parameters -
like age and numbers of past
transplants - into consideration.
This was a very crude study."
The study, performed by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services, compared 29,000 trans-
plants done at 252 hospitals nation-
wide between Oct. 1, 1987 and Dec.
31, 1989.
The report defined transplant
success as a survival length of more
than 1 year after the surgery was
performed.
The survival rate for U-M-per-
formed liver transplants was 72.2
percent compared to a 76.4 percent
national average. Heart recipients,
who live longer than liver recipients
on the average, survived at an 82.4
percent rate at U-M compared to an
81.9 percent national rate.
Merion pointed out that the U-M
accepts a number of high risk pa-
tients that are turned down at other
centers.
"We accept patients in the ex-
tremes of life - newborns and the
aged - with multiple disease states.
We even have patients who receive a
liver and kidney transplant at the
same time," Merion said.
Merion said improving the cen-
ter's transplant success rate is an
important issue, but added that it is
prioritized lower than saving lives.
"Sure, we could bump our sur-
vival rates up by 10 percent simply
by turning down certain high risk
patients, like tiny babies," Merion
said. "But we're not in this to
improve our figures."
Merion explained that two factors
could help increase transplant
survival rates everywhere:
Increased public awareness of
recipient needs to expand the donor
pool, and;
Additional research to develop
better ways to fool the recipient's
immune system into not rejecting the
transplanted tissue.
The U-M has been a leader in
transplantation for the past 28 years,
he said.
This commitment has been
demonstrated by a number of
achievements within the field, in-
cluding the first Michigan heart
transplant and the fact that U-M is
the oldest and largest kidney
transplant center in the world.
"Our superiority lies in our team
approach to transplantation," Merion
said. "We have at least one person in
every department of the hospital -
pediatrics, pathology, etc. -
dedicated to the transplant patient."
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was also noticeably higher than the 20.6 national
norm, which has remained unchanged for the last three
years.
The U-M scores also faired well against the other
Big Ten schools, ranking second behind Northwestern
University in the most recently available statistics for
both tests. Michigan State University's scores ranked
seventh in the Big Ten.
The U-M's scores held up against peer institutions
as well. The university's scores were higher than those
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
the University of Texas at Austin.
Test scores do make an impact on admissions deci-
sions, but other factors are taken into consideration as
well.
"There is a combination of qualities we look for,"
said Ellie Hendershot, assistant director of undergrad-
uate admissions. "We use the test scores in conjunc-
tion with the high school record. You need grades in
the right courses and a high test score."
"We are being quite selective, at least the last two
years," Hendershot said.
ACT scores have been going down ever since the
test was changed three years ago. The ACT was en-
hanced, changing the natural science portion to science
i Ten test scores
Here is how the most recent available ACT
and SAT composite scores for incoming first-
year students compare at the Big Ten
campuses. Purdue is not included because it
"
does not release test scores.
School - Campus
1. Northwestern
2. Michigan - Ann Arbor
3. Illinois
4. Penn St. - Univ. Park
5. Wisconsin - Madison
6. Iowa
7. Michigan State
8. Indiana
9. Minnesota - Twin Cities
10. Ohio State
ACT
30
27.2
27
*
25.3
24.5
23.7
24.2
23.5
22.5
SAT
1300
1174
1150
1115
1099
1051
**
1003
1039
987
* The Penn St. U. system has 18 campuses.
Univ. Park at State College is the largest. The
system converts ACT scores into SAT scores.
** Michigan State recieves too few SAT
scores to compute meaningful statistics.
Source: Daily Staff Reports
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adequately.
"I think they've done a good job.
Sending it to everyone at the begin-
ning of the year was good," LSA se-
nior Doug Finkbeiner said. "They
obviously can't send every draft to
every person and anyone who wants
to have an impact on it has had the
chance."
But other students say they know
nothing about the policy.
"I might have gotten something
in the mail but I receive so many
things in the mail, it doesn't stick in
my mind right now," said Michael
Henderson, a first-year dental
student.
Other students admitted they
were apathetic toward the policy and
did not know 15 drafts of the docu-
ment had been written. Most
guessed there had been three policy
revisions.
"I don't think most students care
because they don't know about it,"
Van Houweling said. "I think the
two go hand in hand. If you know
about it you tend to care because
there are so many flaws in it and it
will affect student lives so signifi-
cantly that everyone should know
about it."
But most students said they do
not believe the policy will aff, ..
them.
"On paper it governs all of the
university but its impact on daily life
is non-existent for us," said Bill
Chung, a third-year graduate
student.
Jeff Keyes, a senior in the Art
School, agreed. "I'm not really that
concerned with it. It's doubtful that
it would affect me. I live off campus
and just come in to attend classes so
the policy doesn't really have an ef-
fect on me."
"I don't think I would ever come
in contact with it because I don't in-
tend to do anything the policy
addresses," Finkbeiner said.
Some students said they would
be interested in reading the final
draft, but others said they do not
care if they ever see the document.
"I probably won't have to deal
with it but I might read it, depending
on how busy I was," said first-year
grad student Brian Hammer.
"If it was condensed I'd probably
read it, but if it's 20 pages long or
something, I probably wouldn't,"
Hartl said.
For further publicity, the admin-
istration plans to run advertisements
this week in the Daily and the
Record about a third open meeting
Monday to discuss the new draft.
The past two public forums have
yielded an attendance of about 30
students, Mueller said.
"We've gone to every length we
can to get it in the hands of stu-
dents," Mueller said. "We don't
know how else to get to the
students."
But some students disagreed
about the administration's effective-
ness in distributing the code. "I
wouldn't say it's been poor because
they did send us something but I'd
say it's been fair," Henderson said.
"They could do better."
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transfer the case to circuit court for
Ford to stand trial.
All assaults are alleged to have
occurred between Feb. 26 and Oct.
10, 1991. Charges state that Ford
knew the sexual assault survivors
were helpless during the assaults.
"Due to the consumption of alco-
hol, all of the victims have said they
were too overcome to defend them-
selves," Martin told the Lansing
State Journal.
All four survivors plan to testify
against Ford, said Capt. Richard
Huntley of the East Lansing Police
Department.
The first two came forward to
East Lansing police in August.
A police investigation revealed
two more, who had just returned to
campus as classes resumed in
September.
Matt Cheney, DU president dur-
ing the alleged sexual assaults, said,
"We had a meeting and decided this
was not a matter we wished to
handle ourselves."
Andre Modigliani, an associate
professor of sociology at the U-M,
said incidents such as this are rarely
reported.
"(Sexual assault survivors) do not
want this type of information to
come out," he said.
"It is very common for the victim
to be blamed for the incident ... The
implication is homosexuality," he
added.
-Jeff Parrott, a reporter for the
Michigan State News, and Daily
Crime Reporter Erin Einhorn con-
tributed to this article.
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adviser to the president's campaign.
"Bush's style is temperate, it is
careful and it is based on experience.
Bill Clinton's style is flashy, it is
slick and it is based on the kind of
person he is," Lake said.
"It's clearly an opportunity for us
to kick out of the stall we've been
stuck in and overtake him," Lake
said.
Bush's campaign will run tough
ads at a furious pace throughout the
debates and until the end of the race.
They'll be poised to seize on any
Clinton miscues in the debates and
turn them into television spots, Lake
said.
Charlie Black, another senior ad-
viser, said Bush's campaign has used
only about 15 percent of its $30 mil-
lion-plus advertising budget. "The
most important thing is, people do
not know a lot about Bill Clinton.
Hopefully the debates and the cam-
paigning and the advertising will
cause people to focus on the differ-
ences in their economic plans."
Analysts say the debates are a
long shot for Bush to recover.
"There's nothing really left to
happen except surprises in the de-
bates to change things around," said
George Washington University polit-
ical scientist Christopher Deering.
However, he said, "They'll
probably change nothing because
Clinton will be well prepared when
all is said and done."
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