Dave Chrystal spent 171 days in a University Hospital bed waiting for a heart transplant to save his life.
Crossing the life line
A new procedure called ‘donation after cardiac death’ is being used to make more organs available for transplants
Saturday, June 9, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 1:12 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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