[Star Tribune, May 15, 2010] As the weeks passed this spring, Anna Linck's heart condition grew progressively worse, and death closed in. The 24-year-old Long Lake woman needed a new heart—and fast. Just down the hall at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, 30-year-old Keilee-Rae Miller, a Richfield resident, was on the list for a new heart, too.
The two women helped usher in a new era of heart transplant surgery at Abbott's Minneapolis Heart Institute.