The Nation - News from April 14, 1989
A bond salesman whose diseased heart was assisted by an electric blood pump for 125 days was reported to be doing well after a heart transplant. Jack Fisher, 46, of Rumson, N.J., was in critical but stable condition after the 9 1/2-hour operation at Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh. Surgeons implanted a donated human heart after removing his heart and the temporary Novacor device that had been assisting it since Dec. 9.
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