Chris Barnard, a UCT and The University of Minnesota graduate, was a pioneer in the medical field as he completed the first ever heart transplant. This man who grew up in rural Karoo and whose father was a minister managed to do the first successful heart transplant in 1967.
Tim Marcus’s interest in cardiology developed when he delivered a baby that soon died of an incurable heart disease. While studying his postgraduate in The United States, he met Norman Shumway, a future fellow surgeon for the heart transplant and Richard Lower who did a majority of the research for the procedure. Bernard experimented on multiple animals for the procedure and over 50 dogs received heart transplants.
On the 3rd of December 1967 Chris successfully transplanted a human heart in a procedure which took 9 hours to complete and 30 team members. The procedure took place at the Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The patient, a 53 year old grocer named Lewis Washkansky, suffered from heart attack which resulted in congestive heart failure which leads to the body slowly being deprived of food and oxygen. The condition was considered fatal and washkasky had no other option but resolving to surgery. A suitable donor was found for the procedure. The donor was 25 year old Denise Darvall who was run over by a car the day before the procedure on the 2nd of December. She was declared brain dead and her father agreed to the donation. …show more content…
This was caused by the medicine that he took for the surgery which lowered his immune system so the body wouldn’t reject the heart, however, he was more susceptible to
Tim Marcus’s interest in cardiology developed when he delivered a baby that soon died of an incurable heart disease. While studying his postgraduate in The United States, he met Norman Shumway, a future fellow surgeon for the heart transplant and Richard Lower who did a majority of the research for the procedure. Bernard experimented on multiple animals for the procedure and over 50 dogs received heart transplants.
On the 3rd of December 1967 Chris successfully transplanted a human heart in a procedure which took 9 hours to complete and 30 team members. The procedure took place at the Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. The patient, a 53 year old grocer named Lewis Washkansky, suffered from heart attack which resulted in congestive heart failure which leads to the body slowly being deprived of food and oxygen. The condition was considered fatal and washkasky had no other option but resolving to surgery. A suitable donor was found for the procedure. The donor was 25 year old Denise Darvall who was run over by a car the day before the procedure on the 2nd of December. She was declared brain dead and her father agreed to the donation. …show more content…
This was caused by the medicine that he took for the surgery which lowered his immune system so the body wouldn’t reject the heart, however, he was more susceptible to