770300login-checkFirst heart transplant through VA-Northwestern Medicine collaboration goes to Navy vet |
Dwayne Patterson served aboard the USS Carl Vinson. His heart transplant was at Northwestern Medicine, which operates a clinic at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago to treat advanced heart failure.
By Phyllis Cha
Dwayne Patterson is proud of his time in the Navy, and is happy that this year, he can attend a Veterans Day event somewhere near his Park Forest home.
That wasn’t the situation last year, when congestive heart failure left him unable to walk more than a few feet without feeling exhausted. Read the full story in the Chicago Sun Times.
770300login-checkFirst heart transplant through VA-Northwestern Medicine collaboration goes to Navy vet |