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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 ...
A beating heart awaiting transplant. American medical researcher Simon Flexner was one of the first people to mention the possibility of heart transplantation. In 1907, he wrote the paper "Tendencies in Pathology," in which he said that it would be possible one day by surgery to replace diseased human organs – including arteries, stomach, kidneys and heart.
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.
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. September 23, 1998. [5] First human pancreas transplant. Richard Lillehei and William Kelly.
Heart Surgery. Institutions. Stanford University. Norman Edward Shumway (February 9, 1923 – February 10, 2006) was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University. [1] He was the 67th president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the first to perform an adult human to human heart transplantation in the United States. [2]
Heart transplantation. Jose Chacko Periappuram (born on April 28, 1958) is an Indian cardiac surgeon and medical writer who performed the first successful heart transplant in the state of Kerala, India, as well as the first successful heart retransplant in the country. His other achievements include the first beating heart, awake bypass and ...
John W. Kirklin at the Mayo Clinic was the first to use a Gibbon-type pump-oxygenator. [20] [22] Nazih Zuhdi performed the first total intentional hemodilution open-heart surgery on Terry Gene Nix, age 7, on 25 February 1960 at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City. The operation was a success; however, Nix died three years later. [23]
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 six hours.