NATION AND WORLD
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University Dally Kansan, February 15, 1984
Girl gets new heart, liver in 1 operation
By United Press International
PITTSBURGH — A young Texas girl was listed in critical but stable condition yesterday from a 16-hour operation that, doctors said, was her only hope — the world's first simultaneous heart and liver transplants.
At a news conference, William F. Donaldson, medical director at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, said Stormie Jones, 6, from Cumby, Texas, had been placed on a respirator following the operation in which doctors replaced first her heart, then her liver.
"Her progress is going as well as we could hope for so far," be said.
The unprecedented multiple transplant was necessary because Stormie's heart, weak from earlier double bypass surgery, could not withstand the critically necessary liver transplant, he said.
"The child suffered from a rare disease in which cholesterol values of the blood are extraordinarily high," the hospital said in a statement. "Her only hope for a normal cholesterol metabolism was a liver transplantation.
"However, Stormie had already undergone double bypass heart surgery for coronary artery disease due to her high cholesterol content and her own
heart was too weak to withstand the liver transplant surgery," the hospital said.
The girl's mother, Lois Jones, 27, who has been in Pittsburgh with her daughter for the past 44 days, said she was with her when the way the operation had proceeded.
"I talked to her today but she couldn't talk back," said Jones. "I told her I loved her, I'm tired but happy with the results."
Jones said she spoke with her daughter Monday prior to the operation.
"She (Stormie) said to me 'I'll be glad when this is over,' Jones said. "And I'm glad too. She got a new heart for Valentine's Day."
The hospital said Jones was hunting for an apartment in Pittsburgh Monday when she learned the necessary organs were available.
Brian Brouznick, head of the hospital's organ procurement center, said both organs were from a 4-year-old girl who had died in a traffic accident.
"The only thing I can tell you is that she was a 4-year-old girl who died Saturday, Feb. 11, in a traffic accident," he said. The child was pronounced brain dead Monday afternoon, he said.
United Press International
PITTSBURGH—Stormie Jones. 6. Cumby, Texos, is in critical condition after undergoing the world's first simultaneous heart and liver transplant. The surgery was performed yesterday at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. The double transplant was necessary because Stormie's heart, weak from earlier bypass surgery, could not withstand the necessary liver transplant, doctors said. Stormie is shown here in an earlier photograph taken at the hospital.
DALLAS — A Greenville, Texas, police officer yesterday testified in a pre-trial hearing that it was information from South Carolina authorities alleging that Lennel Geter was a "bad character" that led him to pursue the black engineer as an armed robbery suspect.
Lt. James M. Fortenberry arrested Geter in connection with an armed robbery Aug. 20, 1982, at a suburban Dallas fast-food restaurant.
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Geter, whose case spawned charges of racism from the NAACP and was the focus of a national media review, will have a new trial in connection with a robbery of another fast-food restaurant though defense attorneys are trying to have the charges dropped. He received a sentence for the earlier conviction.
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WASHINGTON — President Reagan talked calmly about the weather in Washington and Cairo yesterday as bulls and bears on Wall Street swapped rumors that he had suffered a heart attack.
Reagan heart attack is denied
Reporters and photographers, clustered around the 73-year-old president in the Oval Office during a ceremonial morning press conference. Mubarak, and behead the men exchange small talk about climate conditions in their capitals.
By United Press International
Fortenberry traced Geter's license plate number to South Carolina, where law officials told him Geter was a "bad character," he said.
"False, false, false," said deputy press secretary P. Russou of the russia
In New York, the stock market moved upward somewhat in early trading despite the rumors, although prices dipped somewhat at midday as authoritative word knocked down the speculation.
Geter was recruited from his South Carolina college to go to work.
By United Press International
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