First Human Heart Transplant

1967 CE · Güney Afrika · science

The first human heart transplant was performed in 1967 in South Africa by the surgeon Christiaan Barnard.

This operation went down in medical history as the first successful case in which a heart was transplanted from one human to another. Although the first patient's survival time remained limited, the operation was regarded as a groundbreaking development in the field of organ transplantation and laid the groundwork for the advancement of heart transplant surgery in subsequent years.

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The first human heart transplant was performed in 1967 in South Africa by the surgeon Christiaan Barnard.
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1967 CE
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