Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...concluded that no known treatment could help Falk and that he might die any day. His one slender hope lay in an operation performed only once before, and then unsuccessfully: transplantation of a heart and two lungs. Then a 50-year-old woman was admitted after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. Her blood-cell types were a fairly good match with Falk's. As she lay dying, Surgeon-in-Chief C. Walton Lillehei alerted his team. They spent Christmas morning transplanting her heart and lungs, including both bronchi and the lower third of the windpipe. Because the surgical procedures required...