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May 05, 1968 - Happy to be alive; London; Happy to be alive today is Britain's first heart transplant patient, 45 year old Mr. Frederick West, of Leigh-on-sea, Essex, pictured in his new suite at the National Heart Hospital, Marylebone, London. Mr. West was moved to the Hospital suite yesterday from the operating theater where the surgery took place three weeks and three days ago. Mr. West received the heart of Irish born carpenter Mr. Patrick Ryan, 26, who died following a fall from a building site
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