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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, July 9, 1990                   TAG: 9007090082
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: TUCSON, ARIZ.                                LENGTH: Short

PATIENT GIVEN EARLY ARTIFICIAL HEARTS DIES

Pioneer artificial heart recipient Michael Drummond, who received two artificial hearts and one human heart, has died of multiple organ failure at age 30, five years after his first transplant.

Drummond succumbed Saturday night to overwhelming complications including a blood infection, kidney failure and lung problems brought on by a combination of a diseased gall bladder and obesity, said Dr. Jack G. Copeland.

Drummond and Copeland set medical history in 1985 when Drummond became the youngest of six Jarvik-7 artificial heart recipients and the first to undergo an implant as a bridge to human transplant.

- Associated Press 


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