Poland’s Third Heart Transplant Patient Dies
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From Reuters
WARSAW — Zygmunt Chruszcz, Poland’s third and longest-surviving heart transplant patient, died Saturday, 39 days after his operation, the official PAP news agency reported Sunday.
Chruszcz, 25, succumbed to pneumonia at the Provincial Cardiology Clinic in the southern town of Zabrze and showed no signs of having rejected his new heart, the agency said.
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