The State - News from Jan. 6, 1988
A Long Beach man was in critical but stable condition with a donor heart after a transplant operation freed him from an artificial device that had kept him alive for six days, officials at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego said. Surgeons were forced to implant a Jarvik 7-70 artificial heart into retired longshoreman Arnold Mull, 55, on Dec. 29 when a transplanted heart from a brain-dead donor failed. The Jarvik device was used as a bridge until another donor heart was found.
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