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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 ...
James D. Hardy (May 14, 1918 – February 19, 2003) was an American surgeon who performed the world's first lung transplant into John Russell, who lived 18 days. The transplant was performed at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi on June 11, 1963.
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.
On 23 January 1964, James Hardy at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, performed the world's first heart transplant and world's first cardiac xenotransplant by transplanting the heart of a chimpanzee into a desperately ill and dying man. This heart did beat in the patient's chest for approximately 60 to 90 minutes.
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. Though she died within a month ...
A Second Chance for Chimps. In the late 1950s, chimpanzees were either bred in captivity or taken from the wild to be trained for space travel. Most famously, Ham was the first chimpanzee ...
Four decades after being diagnosed with a serious heart condition and given just six months to live, Bert Janssen has set a Guinness World Record as the longest-surviving transplant patient. “I ...
The first transplant of a non-genetically modified [14] [15] pig's heart, lungs and kidneys into a human was performed in Sonapur, Assam, in India in mid-December 1996, and was announced in January 1997. [14] The recipient was Purno Saikia, a 32-year-old terminally-ill man; he died of multiple infections shortly after the operation.