12/03/1967


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First successful human heart transplant

First successful human heart transplant performed by Professor Christian Barnard for Louis Washkansky, who survived 18 days. The operation took place in Cape Town, in the Republic of South Africa.

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Denise Darvall

February 1942 – 3 December 1967) was the donor in the world's first successful human heart transplant, performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, by

Heart transplantation

A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery

Organ transplantation

porcine heart valve transplant, which is quite common and successful. Another example is attempted piscine–primate (fish to non-human primate) transplant of

Baby Fae

heart syndrome. She became the first infant subject of a xenotransplant procedure and first successful infant heart transplant, receiving the heart of

Heart–lung transplant

A heart–lung transplant is a procedure carried out to replace both failing heart and lungs in a single operation. Due to a shortage of suitable donors

Richard Lower (surgeon)

Adrian Kantrowitz, and Christiaan Barnard to conduct the first successful human heart transplant. The Americans (Lower, Shumway, and Kantrowitz) were delayed

Artificial heart

be transplanted into their bodies. Although other similar inventions preceded it from the late 1940s, the first artificial heart to be successfully implanted

Bartley P. Griffith

Scientists and Clinicians Perform Historic First Successful Transplant of Porcine Heart into Adult Human with End-Stage Heart Disease". University of Maryland School

Christiaan Barnard

who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise




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