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Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital in Cape Town. Christiaan Barnard died on 2 September 2001, while on holiday in Paphos, Cyprus. Early reports stated that he had died of a heart attack, but an autopsy showed his death was caused by a severe asthma attack. [74]
The Heart of Cape Town Museum is a museum complex in the Observatory suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.It is in the Groote Schuur Hospital on Main Road. The hospital was founded in 1938 and is famous for being the institution where the first human heart transplant took place, conducted by University of Cape Town-educated surgeon Christiaan Barnard on the patient Louis Washkansky.
Christiaan Barnard: his first transplants and their impact on concepts of death, Raymond Hoffenberg, BMJ, 2001 Dec 22; 323(7327): 1478–1480. What was relatively unusual was the presence in the medical school of a strong department of experimental surgery, founded with remarkable perspicacity some 30 years earlier.
Richard Rowland Lower (August 15, 1929 – May 17, 2008) was an American pioneer of cardiac surgery, particularly in the field of heart transplantation. [1] Lower was born in Detroit, attended Amherst College, and received his medical degree from Cornell University in 1955. [2]
A Washington, D.C. man has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death and then texted a photograph of her dead body to other family members last Friday ...
An autopsy eliminated some ways that a person found near Highway 240 died, but it’s still not clear what killed him. The person, believed to be a man, was spotted near the eastbound lanes of ...
Eastwood announced Sandera's death in a statement last Thursday, although no cause of death was given at the time. She was 61 when she died July 18. Read more: Christina Sandera, longtime partner ...
For 40 years, Marius Barnard kept a secret: rather than wait for her heart to stop beating, his brother, Christiaan Barnard, who led the transplant team, had injected potassium into Denise's heart to paralyze it at Marius's urging. This rendered her technically dead by the whole-body standard. [3]