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Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee currently is the largest heart transplant center in the world, having performed a world-record 174 adult and pediatric transplants in 2024 alone. [30] About 800,000 people have NYHA Class IV heart failure symptoms indicating advanced heart failure. [31]
Barnard performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation in the early morning hours of Sunday 3 December 1967. [3] [5] [42] Louis Washkansky, a 54-year-old grocer who was suffering from diabetes and incurable heart disease, was the patient.
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 ...
Author and noted world-class mountain climber who has set world records as the first ever heart transplant recipient to scale the most famous mountains in the world. 1995 [29] Jerry Richardson (1938–) American businessman and principal owner of the NFL's Carolina Panthers. February 1, 2009 [30] Sandro (1945–2010) Argentine singer and actor.
These were all experiences that would not have been possible without the transplant. [13] [17] By 2000, Harefield ran the largest heart and lung transplant programme in the world. Yacoub and his team went on to perform more than 3,000 heart and heart–lung transplants. [13] [18] Morris retired at the age of 65 and outlived his wife Beryl. [4]
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It calls itself one of the “world’s premier transplant centers” but the Miami Transplant Institute, a crown jewel of the Jackson Health System, has a heart problem.
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]