| News From Transplant Week of September 9, 2001 / Vol. 2 No. 36 |
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Update: Louisville Heart Implant Patient Leaves Intensive Care |
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Robert Tools, who two months ago became the first person in the world to receive a totally implantable artificial heart, has improved to the point that he has been moved out of the hospital's intensive care unit. "While we continue to have ups and downs, Bob's overall recovery is remarkable," said Dr. Laman Gray said. "Looking at him today, you would never know how gravely ill he was just 10 weeks ago." Tools had been near death, too sick for doctors to even consider a heart transplant, when he received the titanium and plastic artificial heart known as AbioCor at Jewish Hospital in Louisville on July 2nd. This past week, the convalescing Tools was visited by The Oak Ridge Boys, a popular country music band, who claim to be some of his biggest fans. Other sources: Jewish Hospital |
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