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Desperate Condition. The source, as usual, was the victim of a traffic accident. Ten-year-old Jennifer Schrikker was killed by a car, and her mother gave permission for the surgeons to use the child's heart. During the transplant-implant operation, which began at midnight and lasted five hours, Taylor was on the heart-lung machine, which maintains the patient's circulation, allowing his own heart to be stopped during the delicate operation. Only then did Barnard discover how desperate his condition had been: "His left ventricle was nothing but a bag of fibrous tissue." Barnard...
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