Domingo Liotta on artificial heart at the Hospital San Lucas 1969

USA: Journalistic note in the Hospital San Lucas, in the city of Houston, Texas. Report to Dr. Domingo Liotta, in which he is asked: - Dr. Liotta, there are many questions we want to ask you, but selecting some you could answer the problem of rejection in the normal transplant, in the artificial heart is aggravated? - Is this artificial heart very different from the one you made in Cordoba in 1959? - In the last patient because initially calculated a month and then 10 days, was the heart that failed or the patient? - When removing the heart of the patient with the transplant, how was it? - Can the artificial heart be a definitive future in a patient? - According to information that has reached us this heart cost 25 thousand dollars, that is, about 8 million pesos, can be so much? - Could the artificial heart be applied in Argentina? - Let's put the heart aside and go directly to Dr. Liotta man, why did he leave Argentina doctor? -Was it easy for you to get here to the United States to be a teacher and receive money for your experiments? -Will your studies be continued in Argentina? - Is the standard of living different from what I could have in Buenos Aires right now? - Are you sure that the artificial transplant they performed was not premature? - Doctor, why criticizes DeBakey if you used to work with him until very recently? -How do you see Argentina from so far away and after 8 years that it is not there? - Think back? (Carlos Montero / Magnetic / Color)
Date: 4/18/1969
Duration: 7 minutes 47 seconds
Film code: D-00312

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