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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine
BARNARD, Christiaan Neethling (1922 – 2001)

BARNARD, Christiaan Neethling (1922 – 2001)

1922 – 2001

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1967 CE

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A human cardiac transplant: An interim report of a successful operation performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.

BARNARD, Christiaan Neethling (1922 – 2001)
BARNARD, Christiaan Neethling (1922 – 2001)

First human heart transplant. The operation was on Dec. 3, 1967, and the patient died on Dec. 21.