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Betty Anick to mark record as longest living transplanted heart recipient
Milwaukee AP reports Betty Anick, age 55, will enter medical history next Saturday as the person living with a transplanted heart longer than any on record. She received her heart at St. Luke's on Oct 21, 1968, after a six year earlier donor case involving Louis B. Russell Jr. in Indianapolis. Her husband John Anick recalls the early heartbreak and Pacemaker use, while Dr Dernard Lepley notes the team bridged a bleak prognosis with the transplant.
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Timothy Harper
Milwaukee
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Betty Anick
St. Luke's Hospital
John Anick
Betty
Dernard Lepley
Robert Buelow
Milwaukee Street
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Judy Bigden
St. Luke's
Mrs. Anick
Dr. Lepley