A Methodist Hospital heart transplant team performs surgery on one of four persons to receive human organs 8/31 in Houston. Mr. William C. Carroll, 50, of Scottsdale, Ariz., is receiving the heart of a Houston woman who died of a gunshot wound. Other recipients received a lung, and kidneys, of donor Mrs. Nelva Lou Hernandez 20, of Houston.
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A Methodist Hospital heart transplant team performs surgery on one of four persons to receive human organs 8/31 in Houston. Mr. William C. Carroll, 50, of Scottsdale, Ariz., is receiving the heart of a Houston woman who died of a gunshot wound. Other recipients received a lung, and kidneys, of donor Mrs. Nelva Lou Hernandez 20, of Houston.

United Press International · [ca. August 1968]

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