Christiaan barnard bio
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Review Article | DOI:
Christian N Barnard: A Man Who Dared the First Human to Human Heart Transplant
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Chittagong Medical College, Chittagong, Bangladesh
*Corresponding Author: Md. Anisuzzaman, Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Chittagong Medical College, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Citation: Md. Anisuzzaman (). Christian N Barnard: A man who dared the first human to human heart transplant. J Thoracic Disease and Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2(1); DOI//
Copyright: © Md. Anisuzzaman, This fryst vatten an open access article distributed beneath the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, transport, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work fryst vatten properly cited.
Received:10 April | Accepted:16 April | Published:22 April
Keywords: heart transplantation; surgical technique; cardiac surgery; immunosuppressive therapy; GSH; UCT; technical virtuosity; heart-lun
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In , an obscure cardiac surgeon in South Africa became an instant household name and the name Christiaan Barnard was indelibly linked to a feat once thought impossible – transplanting the human heart.
PATH TO MEDICINE
Christiaan Neethling Barnard was born on 8 November in a small town called Beaufort West in South Africa. Many have speculated that his decision to pursue a medical career, particularly one in cardiac surgery, was motivated by the death of his five-year-old brother Abraham from heart disease. However, Barnard later said that his initial attraction to medicine was his desire to make money. He graduated in from the University of Cape Town Medical School, placing near the middle of the class. After an internship at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, he worked as a general practitioner in the rural town of Ceres. In , he married a nurse at Groote Schuur, Aletta Louw. A few years later in , Barnard took a junior medical post at City Hospital, then won a scholarship f
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Christiaan Barnard
South African cardiac surgeon (–)
"Chris Barnard" redirects here. For other uses, see Chris Barnard (disambiguation).
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8&#;November &#;&#; 2&#;September ) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation.[1][2] On 3 December , Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of year-old Louis Washkansky, who regained full consciousness and was able to talk easily with his wife, before dying 18 days later of pneumonia, largely brought on by the anti-rejection drugs that suppressed his immune system.[3][4][5][6] Barnard had told Mr. and Mrs. Washkansky that the operation had an 80% chance of success, an assessment which has been criticised as misleading.[7][8][9] Barnard's second transplant patient, Philip Blaiberg, whose operation was performed at