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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- William Schroeder became the first artificial heart recipient ever to leave the confines of a hospital yesterday, taking a brief ride in a wheelchair into the sunny parking lot at Humana Heart Institute...
...Schroeder, who received his implant 86 days ago, left the hospital about 4 p.m., Irvine, in a wheelchair with his heart powered by the small, portable Heimes drive system...
DARTMOUTH (62)--Ron Jones 4.2-10; John Rhine 1.0-2; Scott Schroeder 5.0-10; Bryan Randall 8.3-19; John Mackay 5.1-11; Tim Hassett 0.0--0; Shaun Tobin 2.0-4; Derek Sells 1.0-2; Joe Kilroy 2.0-4; Totals...
According to Dr. Allan Lansing, medical director of the hospital's heart institute, the stroke may have been the result of the constriction of cerebral blood vessels, possibly weakened by Schroeder's diabetes. Another possibility: an artery to his brain may conceivably have become blocked by a clot that formed on a valve in Schroeder's mechanical heart. By week's end, according to Lansing, Schroeder had made a "brilliant" recovery...
...stroke occurred just one day after the world's most famous heart patient took a phone call from President Reagan, who rang up to wish him well. Seizing his chance, Schroeder told the President, "I've got a Social Security problem." Reagan asked Schroeder to repeat himself. "O.K.," said the patient. "I filed March of 1984 for Social Security, and I'm just getting a runaround. I'm not getting anything at all." Promised the President: "I'll get on it right away." Two Social Security officials appeared at Schroeder's bedside the next...