Artificial Heart

Paul Winchell, the inventor of the artificial heart was born.

Dec 21, 1922

First Transplant in Schuur Hospital in Cape Town

Dec 3, 1967

53-year-old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

first complete artificial heart in a human being.

Apr 4, 1969

Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the first complete artificial heart in a human being.

First infant to receive a cross-species heart transplant.

Oct 29, 1984

stitching a walnut-sized baboon heart into baby Stephanie Fae Beauclair's tiny chest, making her the first infant to receive a cross-species heart transplant.