1 dez 1967 ano - First heart transplant

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Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant in Cape Town. It was done at Groote Schuur hospital.

Dr Barnard took a healthy heart from a young woman, who had died in a car crash, and put it in a man who was dying from heart failure. He did not know if it was going to work, but he did the transplant.

The transplant was a success, but 18 days later the man, who received the heart, died of a lung infection.

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