THE FIRST HEART TRANSPLANT
On December 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. The patient was Louis Washkansky, a 54-year-old grocer with severe heart failure.
The donor was Denise Darvall, a young woman who died in a car accident. The operation lasted five hours and required a team of twenty medical professionals. When Washkansky’s heart was removed and replaced with Darvall’s, the world of medicine changed forever.
Though Washkansky lived for only 18 days after the surgery, dying from pneumonia, the operation proved that heart transplantation was possible. This breakthrough led to improvements in transplant techniques, immune suppression medications, and organ preservation methods.
Today, thousands of heart transplants are performed annually worldwide. Survival rates have improved dramatically, with many recipients living ten years or more after surgery. The success of that first operation in 1967 gave hope to millions of heart disease patients and paved the way for modern transplant medicine.
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