History of first human heart transplantation
Just 52 years ago, on December 3, 1967, Christian Barnard had his first heart transplant made by Louis Washkansky, 54, in Cape Town, South Africa. After surgery, he suffered from ischemic cardiomyopathy and was hospitalized. Heart attack Louis Waskansky, 54, who suffers from ischemic cardiomyopathy, is in hospital with a heart attack. Christian Barnard, a surgeon trained at the University of Cape Town in the United States, performed the first implant. Asked to be a surgeon at the National Heart Institute in London, Christian Barnard returned to South Africa for heart surgery and underwent his first heart operation in 1967.