The Nation - News from Nov. 1, 1985

Heart recipient Anthony Mandia, who had developed life-threatening pancreas and kidney problems, has improved and his condition has been upgraded to critical but stable, spokesmen at a Hershey, Pa., hospital said. The human heart implanted in Mandia, who had spent 11 days on the Penn State artificial heart, is functioning well and his vital signs are normal, the spokesmen said. In Pittsburgh, Thomas J. Gaidosh, who survived for four days on a Jarvik-7 artificial heart before receiving a human heart, was described as in serious condition but “awake and alert.”