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Heart transplantation in man: Developmental studies and report of a case.

Publication Details

J. Amer. med. Assoc., 188, 1132-40. 1964 CE.

Heart transplant from a chimpanzee into a man; unsuccessful. Hardy was expecting the donor heart to be obtained from a relatively young patient dying of brain damage, but the patient went into terminal myocardial failure before a human organ could be obtained. The recipient was a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder; he died 18 days after the operation. Westaby and Bosher, Landmarks in cardiac surgery (Oxford, 1999) 259-260.

The paper has seven co-authors.

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External URLheart-transplantation-in-man-developmental-studies-and-report-of-a-case

Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: Oxford