Baptist patient headed home with battery-powered heart
Brian Pedigo is helped onto an exam table by his wife, Amy, before a checkup at Baptist Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, Oct. 7. Pedigo, 41, is the first person in the region to leave a hospital with an artificial heart. “I am just happy to be here and be alive,” Pedigo said. “I’ve got to get myself built back up.” (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
The surgery he made it through is the closest thing to an artificial heart implant ever done in Memphis.
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Brian Pedigo Amy Pedigo Rachel Harrison Martin Strueber Baptist Heart Institute Ashish ShahJane Roberts
Longtime journalist Jane Roberts is a Minnesotan by birth and a Memphian by choice. She's lived and reported in the city more than two decades. She covers business news and features for The Daily Memphian.
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