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Christiaan Barnard at a conference on cardiac transplantation

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Identifier: 101584939X47
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Dates

  • Creation: 28 December 1967

Extent

1 pages

Description

Left to right: David M. Hume, Barnard, Andrew G. Morrow, Fredrickson. Dr. Barnard had lead a team of South African surgeons in transplanting a human heart on Dec. 3, 1967. The patient was still alive at the time of this conference.

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