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Published: August 30, 2008
How surprise heart transplant 'turned a tragedy into a triumph'
With his heart failing from a deadly viral infection, Kansas high school football player Tyler Groom waited nervously inside an Oklahoma City hospital's operating room.
He was to get two cardiac-assist devices that could keep him alive for a short time longer.
But on Aug. 19, just as Integris Baptist Medical Center physician Dr. James Long brought a scalpel to Groom's chest to make the incision, the oper...
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