PHOTOS: 1984 Stormie Jones Transplant Surgery

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Stormie Dawn Jones, Lois Jones Stormie Jones arrives May 15, 1984 at the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport and is accompanied by Bert and Ernie and other dolls who share her wheelchair. Stormie underwent simultaneous liver and heart transplant operations in February in Pittsburgh and was returning home. Stormie's mother Lois holds bouquet of flowers at right. (AP Photo/Bill Janscha) (Bill Janscha/AP)

Stormie Dawn Jones, Lois Jones Stormie Jones arrives May 15, 1984 at the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport and is accompanied by Bert and Ernie and other dolls who share her wheelchair. Stormie underwent simultaneous liver and heart transplant operations in February in Pittsburgh and was returning home. Stormie's mother Lois holds bouquet of flowers at right. (AP Photo/Bill Janscha) (Bill Janscha/AP)

Stormie Dawn Jones Stormie Jones, 7, who underwent the world's first simultaneous heart and liver transplant, Feb. 14, 1984 hugs a Cabbage Patch doll at her temporary Pittsburgh home. The blonde, brown-eyed girl is expected to return home to Cumby, Texas, on Monday. She will return to Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital for checkups and doctors say her new organs are "functioning normally" and she "is normal." (AP Photo/Fred Vuich) (Fred Vuich/AP)

Stormie Dawn Jones Stormie Jones, 7, who underwent the world's first simultaneous heart and liver transplant in February, sits in the cockpit of the plane that will carry her home to Texas at the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport, May 14, 1984. Stormie will return to Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital for checkups and doctors there say her new organs are "functioning normally." (AP Photo/Fred Vuich) (Fred Vuich/AP)

Dr Thomas Starzl FILE - This Nov. 10, 1989 file photo shows transplant pioneer Dr. Thomas E. Starzl as he oversees a liver transplant operation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh. A release at the request of the Starzl family by the University of Pittburgh Medical Center says Dr. Starzl died at the age of 90, Sat., March 4, 2017 at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 90. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

THOMAS STARZL Transplant surgery pioneer Dr. Thomas Starzl holds his dog, Ophelia, on his lap in his office in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh on June 17, 1999. Now 73 and absent from an operating room for nine years, Starzl is excited about his research into why some transplants and their new bodies learn to get along without anti-rejection drugs. He calls the process "chimerism." (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) (KEITH SRAKOCIC/ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Thomas Starzl Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center delivers an acceptance speech after receiving the 2012 Lasker DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for developing liver transplantation, an intervention that has restored normal life to thousands of patients with end-stage liver disease, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 in New York. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, has championed the greatest breakthroughs in medical research for 66 years. The three awardsrecognized as the most prestigious medical research awards in the US honor seven awardees whose innovative work has led to dramatic advances that will prevent disease and prolong life. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (Mary Altaffer/AP)

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