south africa, grooteskure hospital, dr christian barnard, 1969
2006-06-11 00:12:57
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answered by JeckJeck 5
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"On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday I was world renowned."
Thus Dr Christian Barnard recalled a weekend in 1967, when he became the first person to perform a heart transplant on a human being.
Christiaan Neethling Barnard
South Africa
3rd December 1967
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (November 8, 1922 – September 2, 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon. He became famous for performing the world's first open heart transplant.
He was appointed cardiothoracic surgeon at the Groote Schuur Hospital in 1958, establishing the hospital's first heart unit. He had also experimented for several years with animal heart transplants following the first successful kidney transplant in 1954 — Barnard performed the first kidney transplant in South Africa in 1959. He also lectured at the University of Cape Town, and in 1961 he was made head of cardiothoracic surgery at the university.
Heart transplant
The world's first open heart transplant operation was performed on 3 December 1967 in an operation lasting nine hours and using a team of thirty persons. The patient, Louis Washkansky, was 55 years old and suffering from diabetes and heart disease. The transplant heart came from a young woman, Denise Darvall, killed in a road accident. Washkansky survived the operation and lived for eighteen days, before succumbing to pneumonia induced by the immuno-suppressive drugs he was taking.
A year later, 1968 - A. Denton Cooley perform 5 heart transplants within 5 weeks
A transplant operation was conducted by Barnard on 2 January 1968, and the patient, Philip Blaiberg, survived for 19 months. Mrs Dorothy Fisher was given a new heart in 1969 and became the longest surviving patient, she lived for 24 years after the transplant.
2006-06-11 00:13:23
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answered by Anonymous
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The world's first open heart transplant operation was performed on 3 December 1967 by Professor Christian Barnard at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town (South Africa) in an operation lasting nine hours and using a team of thirty persons. The patient, Louis Washkansky, was 55 years old and suffering from diabetes and heart disease. The transplant heart came from a young woman, Denise Darvall, killed in a road accident. Washkansky survived the operation and lived for eighteen days, before succumbing to pneumonia induced by the immuno-suppressive drugs he was taking.
2006-06-11 00:24:29
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answered by Magic Gatherer 4
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As of April 1985, only two heart transplants had been performed in the Carolinas, both at Duke University Medical Center in Durham. That all changed on Jan. 6, 1986. At Charlotte Memorial Hospital (now Carolinas Medical Center) in Charlotte, Sanger Clinic physicians performed Charlotte's first successful heart transplant. It took seven hours.
2006-06-11 00:13:53
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answered by simonkcie 3
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It was 1965, and a young George W. Bush had been partying all night with his frat brothers. The cocaine in his system caused his heart to destroy itself. Fortunately a strapping young doctor named Doctor Mayo, Dr Doctor Mayo, was playing strip poker at the local 7-11 nearby. When the paramedics stopped their ambulance at the convenience store to get slurpees on their way to the morgue, Dr Mayo snatched one of their hearts and quickly inserted it into the flailing future president. Thereby saving one life, ending another, and creating war in Iraq.
Hope your other homework turns out well.
2006-06-11 00:32:18
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answered by daphinus 2
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Dr Christiaan(Neethling) Barbard in South Africa on the 3/121967
2006-06-11 03:52:41
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answered by Victoria S 1
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I know is was Dr Christian Barnard, in South Africa. I am not completely sure of the date, but think it was 1969.
A wonderful moment, and has prolonged thousands of lives.
2006-06-11 00:16:43
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answered by Suzita 6
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answered by ? 3
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