Word: schroeder
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LAST WEEK'S SURGERY ON MURRAY HAYDON, 58, THE THIRD MAN IN HISTORY to receive a permanent artificial heart, could not have gone more smoothly. DeVries finished the job in 3 1/2 hours, about half the time it took to implant the device in William Schroeder last November, and four hours faster than the first implant surgery conducted more than two years ago on Seattle Dentist Barney Clark. This time there were no problems with bleeding (as there had been with Schroeder), and no breathless moments when the device failed to work (as in Clark's case). Said a nurse...
Like his two predecessors, Haydon became a candidate for heart replacement because of terminal cardiomyopathy, a progressive weakening of the heart muscle. But his chances seemed better than those of either Clark or Schroeder. Clark, who was all but dead at the time of his implant surgery, not only had heart disease but was suffering from emphysema; Schroeder had diabetes and advanced atherosclerosis...
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...
...press conference early last week, Dr. Allan Lansing, spokesman for the medical team, expressed doubts about Schroeder's "quality of life," and whether he would ever be able to leave the hospital. He described Schroeder, 53, as weak, unable to speak in complete sentences, withdrawn and confused. "If he doesn't get stronger and he remains discouraged," said Lansing, "that could be a threat to his life...
...Heidemann's cloak-and- dagger methods: how he described clandestine meetings with former Nazi officers, payoffs to East German generals, and encounters on highways near Berlin where satchels of cash were tossed from one moving car to another in exchange for the books. Piled high behind Judge HansUlrich Schroeder are mounds of dog-eared folders stuffed with exhibits and testimony. But nowhere in them are the answers to two key questions: why Stern's normally tough- minded managers fell for the forgery without taking precautions to authenticate their find, and whether Heidemann was a party to the hoax...