The Nation - News from Feb. 4, 1986
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A 40-year-old female factory worker dying of a viral infection received an artificial heart, hours after a Jarvik-7 was also implanted to keep a man in Pennsylvania alive until a human donor is found. Bernadette Chayrez received a Jarvik-70 heart, a miniature version of the Jarvik-7, in Tucson. In Pittsburgh, a 39-year-old unidentified man who received a Jarvik-7 artificial heart early Monday was responding to verbal commands. In Minneapolis, the first woman to receive an artificial-heart and later a human implant, Mary Lund, 40, has been removed from a respirator.
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