Heart

Artificial Heart

By HatNStash

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

  • First Transplant in Schuur Hospital in Cape Town

    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.

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

  • First infant to receive a cross-species heart transplant.

    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.

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