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Pioneering open heart surgery survivor awaits new heart
Johnny Watson one of the first children to survive open heart surgery in 1955 at University of Minnesota hospital waits for a life saving heart transplant forty six years later. He now lives in Arden Hills and is kept alive by two implanted pumps while doctors search for a donor.
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Minneapolis
Johnny Watson
University of Minnesota Hospital
Fairview University Medical Center
C. Walton Lillehei
Watson
Arden Hills
Lillehei
Sonya Hatfield Head
Southside Pediatrics
Head
University of South Carolina
Aiken
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Columbia
Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital
USC
Hilda Sheriff
Dr. Head