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Stephanie Fae Beauclair [1] (October 14, 1984 – November 15, 1984), better known as Baby Fae, was an American infant born in 1984 with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.She became the first infant subject of a xenotransplant procedure and first successful infant heart transplant, receiving the heart of a baboon.
Boyd Rusia Rush [a 1] (July 4, 1895 – January 24, 1964) [1] was an American upholsterer who was the recipient of the world's first heart transplant on January 24, 1964, at University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. Furthermore, Boyd's doctor James D. Hardy used a chimpanzee heart since no human donor heart was readily ...
Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov (Russian: Владимир Петрович Демихов; 31 July 1916 – 22 November 1998) [1] was a Soviet Russian scientist and organ transplantation pioneer, who performed several transplants in the 1940s and 1950s, including the transplantation of a heart into an animal and a heart–lung replacement in an animal.
Keith Reemtsma (5 December 1925 – 23 June 2000) was an American transplant surgeon, best known for the cross-species kidney transplantation operation from chimpanzee to human in 1964. With only the early immunosuppressants and no long-term dialysis , the female recipient survived nine months, long enough to return to work.
John-Henry Lee was on the transplant list for six months after being born with a rare heart condition. A 6-year-old boy couldn’t wait to tell everyone about his new donor heart after being on ...
Researchers trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig have discovered the organ harbored an animal virus but cannot yet say if it played any role in the ...
James Hardy thus withdrew from the race to perform the first successful heart transplant. [27] More than three and a half years later, the first heart transplant using a human heart was performed by Christiaan Barnard of South Africa on Dec. 3, 1967, with patient Louis Washkansky surviving for eighteen days.
A man is doing well after the first successful transplant of a pig heart into a human body, according to the University of Maryland.