The World - News from April 10, 1985
A 52-year-old Swede, in a 10-hour operation at Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, became the first person outside the United States to receive an artificial heart. The patient, who was not named, is “off the respirator, awake and talking,” his doctors said. He received a metal and plastic Jarvik 7 artificial heart, named after its U.S. inventor, Robert Jarvik, who was present during the operation.
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