AIR-DRIVEN ARTIFICIAL HEART PUT INTO PATIENT

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, March 15, 1993                   TAG: 9303150066
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: TUCSON, ARIZ.                                LENGTH: Short
AIR-DRIVEN ARTIFICIAL HEART PUT INTO PATIENT
A man was in critical but stable condition Sunday after receiving an air-driven artificial heart, the second such implant this year, officials said.
Gaylord Booth, 48, of Phoenix was admitted Thursday to University Medical Center. He suffered from ischemic cardiomyopathy, a heart malfunction caused by poor blood supply to the heart muscle caused by coronary artery disease.
Dr. Jack Copeland, UMC's chief of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, said Booth was stable until Saturday, when his condition rapidly deteriorated.
News of the implant was released Sunday.
Copeland and his UMC transplant team implanted a CardioWest heart into a 46-year-old Scottsdale woman Jan. 11.
Sharoyn Loughran, the nation's first artificial heart recipient since April 1991, was in serious but stable condition Sunday at UMC, where she is awaiting a human heart transplant.
- Associated Press

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB