The Nation - News from Feb. 9, 1986
A woman who spent four days on a mini-Jarvik artificial heart underwent successful surgery for internal bleeding, hours after receiving a human heart transplant in Tucson. Bernadette Chayrez, 40, was in critical condition at the University Medical Center after the second operation, which lasted three hours. The Phoenix woman, whose own heart was damaged by a viral infection, was the second woman to be kept alive with a mini-Jarvik artificial heart. Dr. Jack Copeland headed the team of surgeons who replaced Chayrez’s artificial heart with the heart of a 19-year-old Texas accident victim.
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