Ohio's first heart transplant patient Dellett H. Lawson left the Cleveland Clinic under his own power with assistance from his wife, Leona. Lawson, 50, was discharged 9/26, 22 days after he received the heart of an Arkansas woman who died of injuries she received in a traffic accident.
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Ohio's first heart transplant patient Dellett H. Lawson left the Cleveland Clinic under his own power with assistance from his wife, Leona. Lawson, 50, was discharged 9/26, 22 days after he received the heart of an Arkansas woman who died of injuries she received in a traffic accident.

United Press International · [ca. September 1968]

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