Charles A. Walker, 36; Longest-Surviving Recipient of a Heart-Lung Transplant
Charles A. Walker, the world’s longest-surviving heart-lung transplant recipient, has died at Stanford Medical Center, hospital officials said Monday.
Walker, 36, who died Sunday night, had been hospitalized since April 2 with pneumonia.
The Mountain View, Calif., man had received two heart-lung transplants--on May 1, 1981, and on June 17, 1984.
Walker’s brother, Jack P. Walker, said when his brother was hospitalized that X-rays showed no signs that the second transplant was being rejected.
Walker became the longest surviving heart-lung transplant recipient with the death last May of Mary Gohlke, 50, who received her transplant in 1981.
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