England's First Heart Transplant Patient Survived for 46 Days

Summary


The first heart transplant was carried out by Christian Barnard in South Africa in 1967.

He transplanted the heart of a road accident victim into a 59- year-old man, called Louis Washkansky, in Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital.

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England's First Heart Transplant Patient Survived for 46 Days

Despite Mr Washkansky's death 18 days later, a...

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