The State - News from June 18, 1985

A Northern California woman was in critical but stable condition after doctors at Baylor University Medical Center performed the nation’s fourth liver and kidney transplant. Carol Holleuffler, 39, of Lafayette, who underwent surgery Sunday, was alert and had good vital signs with both her new liver and kidney functioning properly, hospital officials said. Holleuffler arrived in Dallas at 1 a.m. Sunday for the 14-hour operation after a doctor at the University of Pittsburgh decided that hospital did not have adequate facilities for the operation. Dr. Goran Klintman said the double transplant was necessary because an experimental transplant drug given to the woman in overly large doses affected her kidneys and liver. The organs came from an Atlanta child killed an accident.