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Robert Tools was the first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart. Tools, 59, of Franklin, KY, received the AbioCor mechanical heart on July 2, 2001, after he had been told that he would probably not live longer than a month if he didn't have the operation. He recuperated enough to be able to go fishing and to eat at restaurants, but then suffered a stroke in November and died of internal bleeding and organ failure 151 days after receiving the new organ.

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Robert L. Tools
Born July 31 1942
Mobile, Alabama
Died November 30 2001 (age 59)
Kentucky
Occupation Retired phone company technical librarian
Spouse Carol
Children Two adult children in 2001

Robert L. Tools (July 31 1942 - November 30 2001), was the world's first recipient of a fully self-contained artificial heart called AbioCor. The operation took place on July 2, 2001. He survived for 151 days without a living heart. Dr. Joseph Fredi at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville had the idea for it.

See also

  • Barney Clark, the first recipient of the Jarvik-7, a non-self-contained artificial heart.

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