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...Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, where the operation took place, has received permission from the Food and Drug Administration to perform another five artificial-heart implants. One candidate is now in the hospital for evaluation, but will most likely be turned down. At the same time, two Southern girls are scheduled for complex variations of organ replacements this month. Cynthia Bratcher, 6, of Scottsville, Ky., will be taken to Birmingham for an operation that will install a second heart inside her. Meanwhile, Mary Cheatham, 17, of Fort Worth, will go to Pittsburgh for simultaneous transplanting of heart and liver...
...there were only a few desperately ill patients to be saved, extraordinary measures could be organized to save them. At one of the Humana press conferences last week, a young woman named Theresa Garrison sat wearing a T shirt that said HELP US HELP AMIE LIVE. Amie Garrison, 5, of Clarksville, Ind., was born without bile ducts, which drain bile out of the liver, and she will die unless she gets a liver transplant. A country-and-western band has so far helped raise $20,000, but the Garrisons also need publicity to find a liver donor. Both Indiana Senators...
Doctors at Louisville's Humana Hospital Audubon were astounded by Schroeder's rapid progress and by his good humor, which, noted Dr. Allan Lansing, medical director of the hospital's heart institute, "is more important in his recovery than most medicines...
...stunning improvement over Schroeder's condition before surgery. According to Humana doctors, Schroeder has truly cheated death. Without the Sunday-morning implant, he "would not have survived the weekend," says DeVries. "Saturday night, I was very worried...
...cardiologist, Dr. Phillip Dawkins, who suggested that he look into the possibility of an artificial heart. By chance, DeVries, the only surgeon authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to implant the device, had moved this summer from the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City to Humana Hospital Audubon, about 70 miles east of Jasper...