Heart-Lung Recipient Dies
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STANFORD — Charles A. Walker, the longest living heart-lung transplant recipient, died during the night at Stanford Medical Center, hospital officials said today.
Walker, 36, was hospitalized April 2 with pneumonia and was put on a respirator 10 days later after suffering gastrointestinal bleeding. The Mountain View, Calif., man received two heart-lung transplants, the first on May 1, 1981, and the second on June 17, 1984. He became the longest surviving heart-lung transplant recipient with the 1986 death of Mary Gohlke, who had lived five years after the surgery.
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