The Nation - News from April 4, 1986
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A team of surgeons at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis worked Thursday night to transplant a new heart into a Missouri man who last month was given the heart of a mismatched donor because of human error in matching blood types. Hospital spokeswoman Daisy Shepard said the 47-year-old man, who has requested anonymity, was being given the heart from a donor in Billings, Mont. A retrieval team from Barnes flew to Montana to remove the heart from the deceased donor, Shepard said. An Air Force jet then flew the team and the heart back to St. Louis.
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