The First Heart Transplant

GREAT NEW DISCOVERY!HEARTS CAN BE REPLACED!

The First Heart Transplant!

People in the 60's could now, if they had severe heart problems, live longer with the discovery on how to transplant a heart. This great new discovery now gave a option of survival to those with end-stage heart faliure or severe coronary artery disease. People still in the modern day have bad hearts and heart faliures, this discovery still impacts us today.

The first ever heart transplant (cardiac transplant) conducted on a adult was on December 3, 1967 by Christiaan Barnard in the Groote Schuur Hospital. And the first pediatric one was conducted on December 6, 1967 by Adrian Kantowitz in Mimonides Hospital.

Picture on top is Christiaan Barnard who conducted the first adult heart transplant. Picture on the left is Adrian Kantowitz who conducted the first pediatric heart transplant.

A heart transplant is conducted on people with end-stage heart faliure or severe coronary artery disease. The people with these problems now can live with a new heart.

The top picture is the Heart-Lung Bypass machine which was invented by John Heysham Gibbon (bottom picture). It is used to take over the job of the heart and lungs during a heart transplant surgery.