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RECOVERING. William J. Schroeder, 53, artificial-heart recipient who at week's end had survived a record 133 days since the implant, 21 days longer than Barney Clark in 1983; in a special "transition apartment" to which he was moved last Saturday from Humana Hospital across the street, after making steady progress in recent weeks; in Louisville...
...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...
Haydon was aware of the considerable risks involved. Though Barney Clark had survived 112 days with the device, he had suffered unexplained brain seizures that left him depressed and disabled. Schroeder, too, was struggling with serious neurological problems, caused primarily by a stroke that occurred 18 days after his implant surgery, leaving him with impaired speech, loss of short-term memory and weakness on his right side. Schroeder's recovery was further hampered in January by seizures (a common complication of strokes) and, in recent weeks, by fever that ranged as high as 105 degrees...
Unresolved questions about Schroeder's condition and what caused his strokes led some doctors to criticize Humana for rushing ahead with another implant. "They should have waited until this thing with Schroeder is over and looked closely at that before going forward," says Dr. Donald Hill, chief of cardiovascular surgery at San Francisco's Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center. The strokes may have been caused by blood clots 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...
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...