Showing posts with label Cardiac Surgeon: Dr Christiaan Barnard (08/11 /1922 – 02/09/ 2001). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cardiac Surgeon: Dr Christiaan Barnard (08/11 /1922 – 02/09/ 2001). Show all posts

Cardiac Surgeon Doctor Christiaan Barnard

He performed the first human heart transplant in the world in 1967, in Cape Town. 

The operation lasted nine hours and used a team of thirty people, but the patient with the heart of another human being survived for only 18 days...
Before this, he experimented for many years with animal heart transplants.