Cape Town - Fifty-six years ago Dr Christiaan Barnard walked through the entrance of the Old Main Building of Groote Schuur Hospital, and left having performed the world's first human heart ...

On Monday, I was world renowned." That's how Dr. Christiaan Barnard recalled events in December of 1967, when he became the first surgeon to perform a heart transplant on a human being.

Barnard, who was 78, died at a hotel in the western resort of Paphos. A doctor called in by the hotel certified his death, officials said. "Dr Christiaan Barnard died this morning... The causes of ...

Lillehei had a reputation for nourishing future brilliance among his medical students. Lillehei trained Dr. Christiaan Barnard, who went on to perform the world’s first heart transplant in 1967.

In December of 1967, a South African surgeon, Dr. Christiaan Barnard, transplanted the heart of a 23-year-old woman killed in a motor vehicle accident into the chest of a middle-aged man.

Paul Guggenheimer Thursday, April 11, 2019 10:25 a.m. | Thursday, April 11, 2019 10:25 a.m. Six months before Dr. Christiaan Barnard conducted the world’s first highly-publicized heart ...

The year is 1967 and the race is on to make medical history Dr Christiaan Barnard a brilliant and ambitious South African surgeon and three surgeons in America are attempting the impossible the ...

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Detect early, protect kidney health." Dr Phelisa Sogayise, a nephrologist at Christiaan Barnard and Blaauberg Nectare Hospital in Cape Town, said people with any risk factors should prioritise ...

Develops a steroid, cortisone, for this purpose. 1967 The first heart transplant operation is performed by Christiaan Barnard. The patient only survives for eighteen days; later patients survive ...