LONDON - The world's first patient to receive a permanent electric heart has died in Britain. Surgeons in Oxford had removed the battery powered heart from 64 year old Abel Goodman when his own heart appeared to be strong enough to work independently.
Electric heart patient dies
LONDON - The world's first patient to receive a permanent electric heart has died in Britain
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