The Nation - News from Oct. 23, 1985
Artificial heart recipient Anthony Mandia lapsed into critical and unstable condition with reduced brain function but later rebounded and spoke to his brother, said Dr. John W. Burnside, a spokesman for the Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center. Burnside said doctors suspect that the 44-year-old Mandia, who received the Penn State artificial heart on Friday, is suffering from spasms of the brain’s blood vessels.
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