The Nation - News from Feb. 17, 1986
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A 39-year-old businessman kept alive by an artificial heart for nearly two weeks was in critical condition in Pittsburgh after receiving a human heart. After waiting nine days for the transplant, Joseph Burello of New Alexandria, Pa., received the heart in a 7 1/2-hour operation that ended early in the morning, said David Lash, administrative assistant at Presbyterian-University Hospital. Burello received a Jarvik-7 mechanical pump in a five-hour operation that ended Feb. 3, and was placed on the waiting list for a heart transplant on Feb. 6 after his condition stabilized.
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