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Penn State artificial heart kept patient alive hopes remain
In Hershey Pa doctors monitor a patient kept alive 11 days by an artificial heart while awaiting a human heart transplant. Anthony Mandia 4 days on a Jarvik 7 pump before a transplant faces bleeding and rejection risks as Thomas Gaidosh 47 also remains in critical condition after receiving a donated heart. The donor heart came from James Randall Riege 26 of Alexandria Ohio who died in an auto crash.
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Hershey, Pa
Penn State
Anthony Mandia
West Virginia
Pittsburgh
Jarvik
Thomas J. Gaidosh
Gaidosh
Mandia
Burnside
James Randall Riege
Alexandria
Ohio
Gardesh
Presbyterian University Hospital
Riege