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Christiaan Barnard

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Christiaan Barnard
A South African heart surgeon who, in 1967, performed the world’s first human heart transplant, taking the heart of a brain-dead victim of an MVA and implanting it into 55-year-old Louis Washkansky, who lived for 18 days before succumbing to the massive doses of immunosuppressants he received
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Byline: By Paula Murray FORTY years ago today, South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard sewed the heart of a 25-year-old road crash victim into the chest of a 53-year-old businessman from Cape Town.
40 years on..heart swap that changed the world; BIRTHDAY OF BARNARD'S ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
He and his colleague Freddie Wood made medical history with the operation 18 years after Christiaan Barnard carried out the world's first heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa.
Father's career of medical firsts; HORROR AT WINTER GARDENS by The Mirror (London, England)
IT WAS on this day in 1967 that Dr Christiaan Barnard carried out the world's first heart transplant.
Remember When? 1967 December; Email your nostalgia pictures for this ... by Birmingham Mail (England)
 
 
 
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