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Doctors say Mandia didn’t suffer stroke
HERSHEY. Pa. (API — The recipient of
the first Penn State heart suffered
slowness of speech for 30 minutes Sun
day, but doctors said the problem was not
caused by a stroke like those that have
plagued other artificial heart patients.
Anthony Mandia, who received the
pump Friday, underwent some sort of
“neurologic event.** but did not suffer the
brain damage and lack of physical mobili
ty a stroke would cause, said Or. John W.
Burnside, a Hershey Medical Center
spokesman.
Mandia's speech turned “slow and
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thick" for about 30 minutes, but returned
to normal over the following 30 minutes,
Burnside said.
‘‘We‘re still uncertain what this event
was,” he said.
The episode could have been caused by
an old gunshot wound to the head or from
fluctuating blood levels of an anti-seizure
drug Mandia has been receiving, Burnside
said. He had no details about the shooting
that the 44-year-old Mandia suffered as a
teen-ager.
The problem also could have been caus
ed by a blood clot, which is a recognized
clangor to haart Implant patients, but
Burnside said that was unlikely because
there was no other evidence of a clot
Mandia’s slow speech occurred at about
7 a.m. and was immediately noticed, said
Rosann Bozllla, one of the nurses atten
ding him.
Mandia was "just taking it as one of
those things” and said he's going to
"keep fighting." she said.
Burnside said Mandia’s condition was
generally good but he was having some
problem taking deep breaths or coughing
for doctors.
Federal workers
take 'extravagant'
trips, study finds
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
congressional investigation un
covered “numerous examples
of extravagant" trips on luxury
liners by federal employees
traveling at taxpayer expense to
and from overseas assignments,
a Mouse committee chair says.
Rep. jack Brooks, O-Texas.
head of the Government Opera
tions Committee, said trips on
ocean liners at prices several
times the cost of equivalent
airplane trips were turned up by
a study begun last year by the
General Accounting Office, the
investigative wing of Congress.
The chairman made the
statements in a written an
nouncement that his committe«»
has called State Department and
U.S. Information Agency of
ficials to explain at a hearing
W <i d n a s d a y why their
employees "travel in the lap of „
luxury on cruise ships rather
than on coach-fare airlines .”
Brooks also said officials
would be asked to-discuss n
GAO finding that the two agen
das "have‘been very lax in'ac
counting for millions of dollars
in travel advances provided
their employees."
Copies of- the GAO report
have riot been- made public hy
the committee, but a source
. familiar with . the ; document
cited two examples, found’by
the GAO of oceap liner travel by
State Department personnel
, In onecase.'an official und his
family.. returning to Buenos
Aires. Argentina,, from : home
leave in Los Angeles.'flew to
Cartengerta, Colombia, and then
took a ?S-day- cruise to Buenos
. Aires, according to the source.
. The source, who spoke on
; condition he hot be identified,
quoted the .('.AO,as saying the
' voyage cost $18,156; compared
to $;3.,360 had the trip been
. made by air: ° .
In the- other case, an
e.mploy'ee and his six
. dependents flew from -. New
Delhi. India,, for home leave in
Spokane. Wash., and began the
return trip, by . flying to New
York. There they; boarded the
Queen Mlixabet.h II for a five-day
crossing to Kngland. where they
took-a flight back to" India.
The cost of the ocean liner
passage was $18,407. nearly
four times the $4,732 for airfare
from New York to Kngland. the
GAO reportedly found.
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