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He was a heart surgeon in South Africa. He did the first heart transplant and he also did an inter racial heart transplant in apartheid south africa, creating tension.
The first human heart transplant was on 3 December 1967 in South Africa by Christian Barnard and his team
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The first heart transplant was performed in December 3,1967, on Louis Washkansky by surgeon Dr. Christian Barnard, at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Capetown, South Africa.
A team led by Christiaan (this is the proper South African spelling, with two "a"s) Bernard performed the first successful human to human heart transplant in South Africa in 1967. The patient lived 18 days before succumbing to pneumonia.An earlier unsuccessful transplant of a Chimpanzee heart into a dying human was performed by a team led by James D. Hardy in Mississippi, USA, in 1964 (the patient lived only 90 minutes). This was the first heart transplant involving a human.Robert Koffler Jarvik (the previous answer posted here) performed the first artificial heart implant, not the first heart transplant.
The first heart transplant was performed in December 1967, on Louis Washkansky by surgeon Dr. Christian Barnard, at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Capetown, South Africa.
The first human heart transplant was performed on December 3, 1967. The operation was led by a surgeon named Christiaan Barnard, in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. At the time, it was one of the most widely publicized events in the world. Louis Washkansky was the recipient of the heart. First human heart transplant On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Louis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
The reason Cristiaan Barnard is famous is because he was the first person to perform a heart transplant.
The then South Africa dwelling surgeon devised and performed the first successful heart transplant.
he had a heart transplant on the 3rd December 1967. he had it in a place called cape town. in south Africa!
Yes it was. The world's first human heart transplant was performed by Christian Barnard on December 3, 1967, in Cape Town South Africa on a man called Louis Washkansky.