Stormie Jones

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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.[1] Stormie had a condition which raised her blood cholesterol to 10 times normal levels.[1] The condition, a severe form of familial hypercholesterolemia,[2] and the resultant high levels of low density lipoprotein gave her two heart attacks when she was six years old.[3] The case showed that the liver controls blood cholesterol and that high cholesterol is controllable.[4] 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.[2][3] Stormie died on on November 11, 1990.[5] Her death was related to rejection of the heart transplant she had received in 1984.[6]

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  1. ^ a b New York Times. February 20, 1990. New Liver for Stormie Jones. Retrieved on July 2, 2007.
  2. ^ a b Time Magazine. Mar. 26, 1984. A One-in-a-Million Worst Case. Retrieved on July 2, 2007.
  3. ^ a b New York Times. October 15, 1985. Young Texas transplant patient is among many aided by Nobel research. Retrieved on July 2, 2007.
  4. ^ Findagrave.com Stormie Dawn Jones. Retrieved on July 2, 2007.
  5. ^ CBSNews.com. Transplant History. Retrieved on July 2, 2007.
  6. ^ New York Times. November 17, 1990. Girl's Death Linked to Transplant Rejection. Retrieved on July 2, 2007.
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She died so others may live. We as her family miss her but are very happy for all the people she has helped. Their improving quality of life is our healing medicine. We miss you Stormie. David Aaron.

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