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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.
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.
For 30 seconds on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 1968, in an operating room at Stanford Hospital, two human hearts lay very still in two separate basins near the unconscious body of a 54-year-old patient, and time froze.
Norman Shumway performed the first adult heart transplant in the United States on January 6, 1968, at the Stanford University Hospital. [16] A team led by Donald Ross performed the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom on May 3, 1968. [22]
American surgeon Norman Shumway achieved the first successful heart transplant, in a dog, at Stanford University in California in 1958.
On Jan. 6, 1968, as Stanford surgeon Norman Shumway performed the first U.S. adult heart transplantation, the world held its breath.
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.
For his first attempt at a heart transplant, Barnard selected as the recipient Louis Washkansky, a 54-year-old grocer with severe coronary artery disease. A diabetic with peripheral vascular disease, his leg oedema was so severe that it required drainage with subcutaneous needles.
He had performed a single successful kidney transplant in Cape Town, and felt ready to carry out the first heart transplant. He asked his colleague, Val Schrire, a professor of cardiology, to identify a patient in need of the procedure. 2
Louis Washkansky was the first person to have a heart transplant. Fifty years ago - on 3 December 1967 - the heart of a 26-year-old road accident victim, Denise Darvall, started to beat inside...