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...Copeland hoped that Drummond's problems might be caused by abnormal levels of blood sugar or the aftereffects of sleeping medication, he feared the worst. "I had to admit it to myself," he says, "but I didn't want to." A neurologist confirmed that Drummond had suffered a mild stroke, most probably from tiny blood clots forming in or around the artificial heart...
Although Drummond quickly recovered almost complete use of his right hand and the ability to speak clearly, the stroke left him "depressed and frustrated" and forced his doctors to speed up the transplant timetable. Rather than wait for Drummond to build up his strength for the second operation, as had originally been planned, they decided to perform the transplant as soon as a suitable donor organ became available. That happened at week's end, when doctors obtained and transplanted a heart from a 19-year-old Texas motorcycle accident victim...
Drummond's stroke-caused crisis cast doubt on a new phase in the artificial heart program, one with a more limited and, to many, a more realistic goal: to use the mechanical device not as a permanent implant but only as a bridge, keeping a seriously ill heart patient alive until a human donor heart can be found. The Food and Drug Administration had authorized Copeland to use the Jarvik-7 for that purpose only a few weeks before, and has since granted permission to a handful of other surgeons. "We're not really doing this in an attempt...
Princeton stroke Harry Becker, a member of Canada's Olympic team, said that his squad "didn't mean to let them go out as far as they did." He added that he "didn't know they were so far ahead...
...Illinois (1940), then crested again in her 70s when she became a cult figure, especially for young people, in such offbeat films as Where's Poppa? (1970), Harold and Maude (1971) and, most notably, Rosemary's Baby (1968), for which she won a supporting actress Oscar; of a stroke; in Edgartown, Mass. Talented in many modes, she also wrote two hit plays in the 1940s (Over Twenty-One and Years Ago), a novel (Shady Lady, 1982), three volumes of autobiography and, with her husband of 43 years, Director and Novelist Garson Kanin, a host of antic romances, including the Hepburn...