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A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease when other medical or surgical treatments have failed. As of 2018, the most common procedure is to take a functioning heart, with or without both lungs, from a recently deceased ...
Christiaan Barnard. Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. [1][2] On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of 54-year-old Louis Washkansky who ...
Spouse. Ann Sklar. Louis Joshua Washkansky (12 April 1912 [1] – 21 December 1967) was a South African man who was the recipient of the world's first human-to-human heart transplant, and the first patient to regain consciousness following the operation. [2] Washkansky lived for 18 days and was able to speak with his wife and reporters. [3][4][5]
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.
First Heart and Lung Transplant. Brenda Barber. 1984 - UK's first successful heart and lung transplant. 1984. 10 years. First human hand transplant. Earl Owen and Jean-Michel Dubernard. Clint Hallam. The transplanted hand was removed at request of recipient after about two and a half years on February 2, 2001.
Known for. Donor in the world's first successful human heart transplant. Denise Darvall (27 February 1942 – 3 December 1967) [1] was the donor in the world's first successful human heart transplant, performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, by a team of surgeons led by Christiaan Barnard.
Cardiac surgeon. Institutions. L.VAD Technology, Inc. Adrian Kantrowitz (October 4, 1918 – November 14, 2008) was an American cardiac surgeon whose team performed the world's second heart transplant attempt (after Christiaan Barnard) [1] at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York on December 6, 1967. [2][3] The infant lived for only ...
Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. [1] His career spanned nearly eight decades.