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The world's first human-to-human heart transplant was performed by South African cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard utilizing the techniques developed by American surgeons Norman Shumway and Richard Lower.
On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Louis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Washkansky, a South African grocer dying from...
In 2017, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first human heart transplant that had been carried out by the South African surgeon, Christiaan (‘Chris’) Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town on December 3rd, 1967.
Using Shumway’s simple surgical technique, Barnard forever cemented himself into the annals of history as the first to transplant an adult human heart. Washkansky lived 18 days. Surgeon Norman Shumway and cardiologist Ed Harrison speak to the media after the historic surgery.
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.
Now, almost four hours after the first incision, history’s first transplanted human heart was in place. But it had not been beating since Denise died. Would it work?
Then, on Nov. 20, 1967, Shumway and his team announced that Stanford was finally ready to conduct the first human heart transplant, and the wait for a suitable patient and a donor began. A potential patient was identified in October, but died before a donor could be found.
On January 6, 1968, Norman Shumway, the man many had expected to be the first to attempt human heart transplantation, performed procedure for the first time . The recipient, 43-year-old Michael Kasperak, lived just 15 days.
Christiaan Barnard was a South African surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant operation. As a resident surgeon at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town (1953–56), Barnard was the first to show that intestinal atresia, a congenital gap in the small intestine, is caused by an insufficient.
On Dec 3, 1967, a large surgical, nursing, and technical team, which was led by Barnard, undertook the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplantation, placing Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town on the international map.