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Christiaan Barnard is responsible for heart transplants. He performed the first human heart transplant in the world on December 2nd, 1967
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Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the surgery on December 3rd 1967
It was in December 1967
EflerThe 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.
False. The first heart transplant was performed December 3, 1967, by South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard
Dec. 23, 1954, the first successful long-term transplant of a human organ was performed by Dr. Joseph Murray in Boston. It was a kidney transplant between identical twins, Ronald and Richard Herrick. Richard died in 1962 from a recurrence of his original kidney disease in the transplanted kidney. December 3, 1967, South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard conducted the first heart transplant on 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky. He died 8 days later from complications of the medications to suppress his immune system.
On December 3, 1967, South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard conducted the first heart transplant on 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky
Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant in 1967. The patient, Louis Washansky, survived for eighteen days after the operation.
The most famous heart surgeon is probably South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard who performed the first successful human heart transplant in December of 1967.
The first successful heart transplant took place at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, on December 3, 1967, performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard.
Christiaan Barnard in 1967