Physiologic Observations in Human Cross Circulation

THE application of cross circulation to the treatment of patients with organ failure has previously been described.1 , 2 The technic is relatively simple and easily regulated.3 By this means patients with hepatic, renal or bone-marrow failure were treated for periods of two to fifty hours.2 This report describes observations made during four and a half months of daily cross circulation between a patient with leukemia and bone-marrow failure and a patient with renal failure. This symbiotic relation allowed each patient to derive benefit from and to provide support for the partner.Case SummariesJ.H., a 15-year-old girl, had acute myeloblastic leukemia, . . .