Stormie Jones

Stormie Dawn Jones (May 30, 1977 – November 11, 1990) was the world's first successful recipient of a simultaneous heart and liver organ transplant. On February 14, 1984, Drs. Thomas E. Starzl and Henry T. Bahnson replaced the six-year-old's heart and liver at the Pittsburgh Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. New York Times. February 20, 1990. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C0CE5DA143FF933A15751C0A966958260 New Liver for Stormie Jones] . Retrieved on July 2, 2007. ] Stormie had a condition which raised her blood cholesterol to 10 times normal levels. The condition, a severe form of familial hypercholesterolemia, Time Magazine. Mar. 26, 1984. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921648,00.html A One-in-a-Million Worst Case] . Retrieved on July 2, 2007. ] and the resultant high levels of low density lipoprotein gave her two heart attacks when she was six years old. New York Times. October 15, 1985. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9A01E7DF1E39F936A25753C1A963948260 Young Texas transplant patient is among many aided by Nobel research] . Retrieved on July 2, 2007. ] The case showed that the liver controls blood cholesterol and that high cholesterol is controllable. Findagrave.com [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6916650 Stormie Dawn Jones] . Retrieved on July 2, 2007. ] that damaged her organs. Stormie Jones was a part of the research on cholesterol and the liver that won Joseph L. Goldstein and Michael S. Brown the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1985. Stormie died on on November 11, 1990.CBSNews.com. [http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/transplants/timeline.html Transplant History] . Retrieved on July 2, 2007. ] Her death was related to rejection of the heart transplant she had received in 1984.New York Times. November 17, 1990. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D81231F934A25752C1A966958260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fC%2fChildren%20and%20Youth Girl's Death Linked to Transplant Rejection] . Retrieved on July 2, 2007.]

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