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Norman Edward Shumway (February 9, 1923 – February 10, 2006) was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University. [1] He was the 67th president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the first to perform an adult human to human heart transplantation in the United States.
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.
Venugopal pioneered heart transplant surgery in India, having performed the first successful heart transplant in the country, [2] the count standing at 26 transplants. [1] He performed the first implantation of left ventricular assist device, lasting for more than 90 days, in Asia.
The first Uniform Anatomical Gift Act was created after the first successful heart transplant in 1967; the operation was performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard. [3] In 1968, Congress approved the UAGA and recommended that all states adopt it. [9]
John-Henry Lee was on the transplant list for six months after being born with a rare heart condition. A 6-year-old boy couldn’t wait to tell everyone about his new donor heart after being on ...
Donald Nixon Ross, FRCS (4 October 1922 – 7 July 2014) was a South African-born British thoracic surgeon who was a pioneer of cardiac surgery and led the team that carried out the first heart transplantation in the United Kingdom in 1968. He developed the pulmonary autograft, known as the Ross procedure, for treatment of aortic valve disease.
William DeVries was born December 19, 1943, in Brooklyn Navy Yard.His father, Henry DeVries, was a Dutch immigrant who died in combat on the destroyer USS Kalk (DD-611) in 1944 during the Battle of Hollandia, [1] where he had enrolled as a naval surgeon.
A mother is speaking out after she says her 12-year-old daughter was denied a place on the heart transplant list at Cincinnati Children's Hospital because of her vaccination status. Brayton and ...