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The patient in South Africa only lived 18 days after the 1967 transplant after catching double pneunonia.
This led to the search for better anti- rejection drugs.
ps, the very first heart transplant was an operation upon a dog in the 1950s USA.
Phillip Anderson
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What made Christiaan Barnard famous?
The reason Cristiaan Barnard is famous is because he was the first person to perform a heart transplant.
The first heart transplant was perfomed in 1991 true or false?
False. The first heart transplant into a human was performed in 1964, when a dying man received a chimpanzee heart. The first transplant of a human heart to another human was performed in 1967.
Which type of organ transplant did Dr. Christiaan Barnard first paform in 1937?
Dr Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant. Heart.
Cape Town is first in what heart category?
heart transplant
Who is father of heart transplant?
A South African doctor,Doctor Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant.
Date of the first human heart transplant?
The first human heart transplant was on 3 December 1967 in South Africa by Christian Barnard and his team
Which type of organ transplant did Christian Barnard first perform in 1967?
That was a heart transplant.
When was the first heart transplant done who did it and were was the hospital?
The world's first human heart transplant was performed by Christiaan Barnard on a man called Louis Washkansky in 1967.
Where was the first successful heart transplant done?
Africa
First heart transplant in the Philippines?
christian barnard
Was the first heart transplant in 1991?
no, it was performed in 1967
Who was the first female to get a heart transplant?
Emma Belushi
