The occasion: The attempt at India’ first human heart transplant. That fortuitous February day was rife with expectation. Nearly three months ago, on December 3, 1967, South African Dr ...
News of the first human-to-human heart transplant, led by South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard, made headlines around the world. Journalists and film crews flooded into Cape Town's Groote ...
OK, so there's really nothing humorous or easy about heart transplant surgery ... idea of what's involved in taking the heart of one human and making it work in another. Have no fear.
The world’s first pediatric heart transplant (which was also the first human-to-human heart transplant in the United States) was performed at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, on this ...