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History of heart trnsplant
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Discovery of blood types
Karl landesteiner demonstrated that people have different blood types, which are determined by marker molecules on their red blood cells. Landestioner discovery enabled bloodtransfusion to be done carefully. -
Blood banks
Charles Drew Demonstrated that emergency transfusion could succesfully be done with plasma if whole blood was not available. During world war 2, Drew established blood banks for storing donated blood. His work save millions of lives on the battle field or off it. -
Treatment for blue babies
Helen taussig identified the heart defect that causes the skin of some newborn babies to be bluish in color. The blood of these "blue babies" does not recieve an adequate amount of oxygen. Taussig and another surgeon, Alfred Blalock, developed an operation to correct the defect of these babies' lives. -
First heart transplant
Christiaan Barnard a south african surgeon, performed the first transplant of the human heart. Louis Washkansky, the manwho recieved the heart lived for 18 more days after the transplant. But barnardswork paved the way for future success in transplanting hearts and other organs. -
Artificial heart
An artificial heart developed by robert jarvik was implanted into patient by surgeon william Devries at the university of Utah. Barney Clark, the man who recieved the artificial heart lived for 112 days.today artificial hearts are sometimes used temporily in people waiting for heart transplants.
