Boy, 15, Receives Jarvik Heart
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MINNEAPOLIS — A Wisconsin teen-ager today became the youngest person in the world to receive a Jarvik 7 artificial heart, medical officials said.
Christopher Larson, 15, of Esdaile, Wis., about 40 miles southeast of Minneapolis, received a mini-Jarvik heart at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in a five-hour operation undertaken pending transplant of a human heart. He was listed in critical condition, usual after such surgery.
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