The Nation - News from April 18, 1985
Artificial heart recipient Jack C. Burcham has shown great improvement since a second operation to stop internal bleeding, but is still in danger of infection or kidney failure, Dr. William C. DeVries said. Burcham, 62, a retired railroad employee from Le Roy, Ill., was in critical but stable condition at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Ky. DeVries said the hospital’s other artificial heart recipient, retired auto worker Murray P. Haydon, was continuing a slow recovery.
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