Spends 'Good Night'

Áfter "s pending a good night, sleeping well," Philip T. Barnum is reported to be "conscious, alert and communicating with doctors and nurses at University Hospital. Michigan's first heart transplant patiënt, still Usted in "fair" condition, remains on intravenous feeding and has not yet been allowed out of bed. He receives daily intramuscular shots of Immuran and steroid in the morning and afternoon. Early reports that a Pacemaker has been used on Barnum were false, Hospital officials said today. When the cardiac arrest episode oecurred early Friday morning, doctors prepared hls new heart for prompt attachment of an external pacemaker should i t become necessary. It hasn't. The new heart continúes to retain good pulsing pressure and is functioning entirely on its own. No rejection, eardiac arrest or any special problems have been reported. Barnum's new heart was made operative by an electric shock at 3:02 a.m. yesterday. Following anxious moments of cardiac arrest, Barnum was reported doing well and had had no recurrence of the arrest by 4:30 p.m. yesterday. The heart donor, Herman Opdenhoff, 37, died of a massive brain he mmorhage. Opdenhoff, an inmate at Southern Michigan Prison at Jackson, was brought to University Hospital about a month ago suffering severe headaches. He suffered a stroke at about that time. He went into surgery in a last-ditch effort to save his life but died of ruptured blood vessels in the brain. The former Waterford resident was serving time in Jackson prison for robbery. He reportedly told bis brother-inlaw, Arthur Allen, prior to his opera tïon that "if things don't go right in the operation, I want to do some good. The hos-j pital can take anything theyj want." In mid-afternoon yesterdayj his eye corneas, which hadj been removed earlier, Were transplanted into a recipiënt, the hospital said. Asked why it had taken so long to get a donor for Barnum, Dr. Roger Nelson, associate director of University Hospital, said "because a donor who matches a recipiënt requires very high odds. For a perfect match the odds are one in 400." Nelson said blood types and tissue are crossmatched in selecting a satisfactory heart donor. Barnum and Opdenhoff did not know each other, Nelson said. Mrs. Aileen Barnum had been near her husband at the hospital, but visited with him last night for the first time since the transplant. She said later she was encouraged by his progress. The hospital reported that the son and younger daughters of Barnum: Thomas, 21, a private in the Army; Sheryl Anne, 19; and Nancy Rae, 17, visited University Hospital Friday afternoon to stand vigil with their mother. The family, reported to be in good spirits, spent the night with relatives in Adrián. Hospital officials had withheld the name of the heart donor, saying they were complying with the wishes of hisj family, but late Friday after- noon they identified the donor as Herman Opdenhoff .