Word: cabrol
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...recipient was Truck Driver Clovis Roblain, 66, forced to retire last July by progressive heart failure and a crippling heart attack. Chief surgeon was Dr. Christian Cabrol, 42, on the faculty of the University of Paris since age 26, and a specialist in artificial-heart research. An hour after the operation, Roblain's blood pressure dived to near zero. Emergency measures restored it to near normal, but Roblain remained in a coma until his death 51 hours after the operation. The autopsy showed that many formerly immobile blood clots, set free by the unwontedly strong pumping action...