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On 23 January 1964, James Hardy at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, performed the world's first heart transplant and world's first cardiac xenotransplant by transplanting the heart of a chimpanzee into a desperately ill and dying man. This heart did beat in the patient's chest for approximately 60 to 90 minutes.
He performed a second heart transplant the following year. [4] On 6 March 2014, Periappuram at Lisie Hospital, Kochi became the first cardiac surgeon to conduct a successful heart re-transplant in India when a patient who had already received a transplant developed a heart valve infection a few months later. [5]
Pierre Grondin (August 18, 1925 – January 17, 2006) was a Canadian cardiac surgeon, and one of the first doctors to perform a successful heart transplant. [1] [2] He introduced techniques such as open-heart surgery using the heart-lung machine and coronary artery bypass surgery to the Montreal Heart Institute after his post-graduate training with pioneers Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley in ...
Louis Joshua Washkansky (12 April 1912 [1] – 21 December 1967) was a South African man who was the recipient of the world's first human-to-human heart transplant, and the first patient to regain consciousness following the operation. [2] Washkansky lived for 18 days and was able to speak with his wife and reporters. [3] [4] [5]
In 1969 after some advice from doctor Keith Reemtsma, he decided to leave Salt Lake City and to start his residency in another hospital. That is also the year in which doctor Denton Cooley attempted his first artificial heart transplant in a patient, in Houston. Doctor Cooley's work would be an inspiration for doctor DeVries, who would later ...
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Before moving to America, he was one of the surgeons to perform Hungary’s first heart valve replacement surgeries in 1954. He was the first surgeon to perform heart bypass surgeries in the state in 1956 and the first heart transplant in 1986. [2] He was the founder of the Sanger Clinic and the developer of the Robicsek sternal weave technique.
It took one month from the decision to transplant to find a donor. [4] The patient was to be given the heart of a 20 year old Maharashtrian woman who had sustained severe head injuries after falling from a train. The operation began just after midnight on 17 February 1968. [4] The farmer died from heart failure within three hours of the operation.