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Like his predecessors, Barney Clark, William Schroeder, Murray Haydon and Swedish Patient Leif Stenberg, Burcham was a dy- ing man who gambled on the artificial heart to win a few extra months of life. "We were hoping that he would be able to live like Schroeder," said Jack B. Burcham, 41, the < patient's son, "but Dad was just too weak." (Schroeder has survived more than 150 days with his artificial heart; Barney Clark died after 112 days...
...University of Utah in Salt Lake City, asking him to join the rescue effort. Olsen was a member of the team that first tested the Jarvik-7 heart, which sustained Barney Clark for 112 days and was, at week's end, still beating in William Schroeder and Murray Haydon at the Humana Hospital in Louisville. Although Olsen was well aware that famed Surgeon William DeVries is the only doctor authorized by the FDA to implant the Jarvik-7, he agreed to fly to Tucson with the device. Said he: "In critical situations like this, we have to respond...
...upset Schroeder's wife Margaret and enraged DeVries. The next day officials gave a rosier account of Schroeder's condition. They announced that his fever was subsiding and that he might be allowed to attend his son's wedding on March 16. They released photos showing Schroeder waving to Haydon. Schroeder was also treated to his first trip outdoors: a brief excursion to the hospital parking lot, from which he could glimpse the "transitional care" apartment building where he will live if he leaves the hospital. Two children rushed over to greet the famous patient. "It was like shaking hands...
...that formed somewhere in or near the artificial heart and then traveled to the brain. According to Cardiologist Fredarick Gobel of the Minneapolis Heart Institute, the risk of such traveling clots, or emboli, is great "whenever you have foreign + materials in the vascular system." To reduce this risk for Haydon, doctors gave him anticoagulants before and after surgery, though this increases the risk of bleeding...
...Haydon meanwhile was "recovering very nicely," according to DeVries, though suffering from a mild kidney problem and continued weakness from loss of weight. Without the implant, "he wouldn't be here today," said Juanita Haydon. "Every day is precious...