Who performed the first successful human heart operation?
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Who performed the first successful human heart transplant operation? Who performed the first successful human heart valve operation? Who performed the first successful palliative pediatric human heart operation? Who performed the first successful human open heart operation?
Barnard Christiaan Neethling Barnard Christiaan Barnard
Henry Souttar Souttar Sir Henry Sessions Souttar
Helen Taussig Vivien Thomas Alfred Blalock Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, and Vivien Thomas
John Heysham Gibbon Jr. Gibbon John Heysham Gibbon
Cardiac surgery Christiaan Barnard
Who performed the first successful human heart operation?
Christiaan Barnard Heart transplantation Cardiac surgery Artificial heart Baby Fae Hamilton Naki Zbigniew Religa James Hardy (surgeon) Organ transplantation Coronary artery bypass surgery
Barnard <b>performed</b> the world&#39;s <b>first</b> human-to-<b>human heart</b> transplant <b>operation</b> in 
the <b>early</b> morning hours of Sunday 3 December <b>1967</b>. Louis Washkansky, a 54-&nbsp;... A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant <b>procedure</b> 
<b>performed</b> on ... The world&#39;s <b>first</b> human-to-<b>human heart</b> transplant was 
<b>performed</b> by South African cardiac surgeon Christiaan ... On June 9, 1984, &quot;JP&quot; 
Lovette IV of Denver, Colorado, became the world&#39;s <b>first successful</b> pediatric 
heart transplant. Cardiac <b>surgery</b>, or cardiovascular <b>surgery</b>, is <b>surgery</b> on the heart or great ... In 
1945, the Soviet pathologist Nikolai Sinitsyn <b>successfully</b> transplanted a heart 
from one ... of <b>human heart</b> transplantation, although the world&#39;s <b>first</b> adult heart ... 
Adrian Kantrowitz <b>performed the first</b> pediatric heart&nbsp;... The external pump <b>successfully</b> bypassed the <b>heart</b> of a dog for more than an 
hour. ... for <b>humans</b> which was <b>successfully</b> implanted into Barney Clark in 1982. 
... when he <b>performed</b> the world&#39;s <b>first</b> permanent implantation of ... In <b>1967</b>, Kolff 
left Cleveland Clinic to start the&nbsp;... Prior to the <b>procedure</b>, no infant <b>heart</b> transplant—even with <b>human</b> hearts—had 
been <b>successfully performed</b> due to a lack of infant <b>human</b> hearts. To address 
this&nbsp;... &quot;<b>1967</b> Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard of South Africa <b>performed</b> the world&#39;s <b>first human</b> 
<b>heart</b> transplant <b>operation</b>… Working with a team that included… black South&nbsp;... A pioneer in <b>human heart</b> transplantation in Poland, he led the team that 
<b>performed the first successful</b> heart transplantation in the country, and in June 
1995 he&nbsp;... More than three and a half years later, the <b>first</b> heart transplantation with a <b>human</b> 
<b>heart</b> was <b>performed</b> by Christiaan Barnard of South Africa on Dec. 3, <b>1967</b>, with
&nbsp;... Reenactment of the <b>first heart</b> transplant, <b>performed</b> in South Africa in <b>1967</b>. 
MeSH &middot; D016377. [edit on Wikidata]. Organ transplantation is a medical 
<b>procedure</b> in which an organ is removed from one body and ... Organs that have 
been <b>successfully</b> transplanted include the <b>heart</b>, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas, 
intestine,&nbsp;... Coronary artery bypass <b>surgery</b>, also known as coronary artery bypass graft (
CABG, ... This <b>surgery</b> is usually <b>performed</b> with the <b>heart</b> stopped, necessitating 
the usage ... including Kolesov, as the <b>first successful human</b> coronary artery 
bypass.
Christiaan Neethling Barnard
Christiaan Barnard