The Nation - News from June 3, 1987

Doctors at Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa., performed the nation’s second living-donor heart transplant in part because of an increasing donor organ shortage, hospital spokeswoman Chris Shirer said. Surgeons on Monday transplanted the heart of a living 25-year-old woman into a 53-year-old man who had heart disease, and gave the woman, who was suffering from lung disease, a new heart and lungs from an unidentified donor who died. Both of the unidentified patients were in critical condition, Shirer said.