Two days after he received the heart, Clark returned to surgery to fix ruptured air sacs in his lungs.
His heart problems damaged his kidneys, lungs and other organs, and his age and mild emphysema were factors in his failure to recover, hospital spokesman John Dwan said in January 1983. On Sunday, he implanted another metal and plastic device into a Louisville man.Ĭontributing to Clark’s ordeal were health problems the 61-year-old dentist suffered before the surgery. William DeVries, then on the staff of the University of Utah Medical Center and now the primary surgeon at Humana.ĭeVries implanted the Jarvik-7 heart into Schroeder on Nov. On Monday, doctors at the Humana Heart Institute in Louisville, Ky., said William Schroeder, the second person to receive a permanent artificial heart implant, is ″withdrawn″ and ″discouraged″ and may never leave the hospital unless his strength and spirits pick up.Ĭlark was the world’s first person to receive a permanent artificial heart in a Dec.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) _ Barney Clark survived 112 days with an artificial heart pumping in his chest, but during that time he suffered periods of depression, mental confusion and debilitating health problems.
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