Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Mrs. Virginia Asche, 48, Los Altos, Calif., (shown in file photo) received a new heart from an anonymous donor 9/9 to become the world's 43rd heart transplant patient. Doctors at Stanford University Hospital who performed the transplant reported she was in satisfactory condition after the 4 1/2 hour operation.
Mrs. Virginia Asche, 48, Los Altos, Calif., (shown in file photo) received a new heart from an anonymous donor 9/9 to become the world's 43rd heart transplant patient. Doctors at Stanford University Hospital who performed the transplant reported she was in satisfactory condition after the 4 1/2 hour operation.
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Mrs. Virginia Asche, 48, Los Altos, Calif., (shown in file photo) received a new heart from an anonymous donor 9/9 to become the world's 43rd heart transplant patient. Doctors at Stanford University Hospital who performed the transplant reported she was in satisfactory condition after the 4 1/2 hour operation.

United Press International · [ca. September 1968]

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