
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, March 27, 1990                   TAG: 9003270212
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: PITTSBURGH                                LENGTH: Short

MULTIPLE TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT DIES

The world's first recipient of a heart, liver and kidney transplant has died, nearly four months after the triple transplant, hospital officials said today.

Cindy Martin died Monday evening at Presbyterian-University Hospital, administrator Pat Carlier said. Martin was 26.

The cause of death was not disclosed.

Martin underwent a 21 1/2-hour transplant operation Dec. 2-3.

Although multi-organ transplants have been performed previously, this was the first involving all three organs, according to Dr. John Armitage, who performed the heart transplant for Martin.

Martin had suffered from familial cardiomyopathy, an inherited heart disease. Her father died when he was 31 and many of his relatives died at a young age, Martin's husband, John Martin, said in December.

She received her first heart transplant in November 1985. She later suffered from chronic rejection of the heart and developed hepatitis and kidney dysfunction, according to the hospital.

by CNB