The Nation - News from March 19, 1986
The latest recipient of an artificial heart regained consciousness but experienced moderate bleeding and was in critical, unstable condition on his first full day of life with the Penn State heart. Robert F. Cresswell, who received the mechanical pump after his body rejected a transplanted human heart, was alert but could not talk because of tubes in his throat. He remains on a respirator. Cresswell, 48, received the one-pound air-driven pump during eight hours of surgery at the Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa.
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