The Region - News from Sept. 29, 1986
A 24-day-old boy was in Three-week-old Baby Trevor was making “good progress†in his recovery from successful heart transplant surgery over the weekend at Loma Linda University Medical Center near San Bernardino. Hospital spokeswoman Anita Rockwell said Trevor Reed, of Sacramento, was in critical but stable condition, which is standard after a heart transplant operation. The boy was born Sept. 3 with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, an underdevelopment of the left side of the heart. Dr. Leonard Bailey, who gained national attention in 1984 for transplanting the heart formed the surgery. Trevor’s parents said in a Sept. 18 interview with KXTV in Sacramento that they were planning on a long wait for a suitable donor heart because their son had rare O-negative blood. Any information about the heart donor is prohibited by hospital policy, Rockwell said.
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