Most surgeons never expected Barnard to transplant a heart because the problem of ________ had not yet been solved.

A. whether society would pay for heart transplants
B. fairness in the selection of who would receive organs and who would not
C. post-transplant psychosis
D. the formation of clots on any plastic surface or seam in contact with blood
E. how to control immune rejection of the transplanted organ without letting lethal organisms invade the patient's body

Answer: E

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