The Nation - News from Oct. 15, 1986

Mary Lund, the first woman to receive an artificial heart, died at a Minneapolis hospital nine months after her Jarvik 7 mechanical pump was replaced with a human heart. Lund, 40, of Kensington, Minn., had been listed in critical condition in the intensive care unit, a hospital spokesman said. Her condition had been good enough last month to allow weekend visits out of the hospital, but doctors said her condition began deteriorating last week.