The Nation - News from Feb. 5, 1985
Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder has been running a fever since last week, with his temperature fluctuating between a normal 98.6 degrees and 102 degrees, a spokesman said. Dr. William C. DeVries, who implanted the artificial heart Nov. 25, believes that Schroeder’s fever was caused by a reaction to medication. Because of the fever, doctors decided to discontinue drugs for depression, neurological circulation and a minor urinary tract infection, said Robert Irvine, spokesman at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Ky.
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