The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 3rd, 2001
CHRISTIAAN BARNARD 1922 - 2001
Surgeon's '67 transplant amazed world
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
New York Times
Monday, September 3, 2001
Christiaan N. Barnard, the South African surgeon who in 1967 shocked the world by performing the world's first human heart transplant, died Sunday in Cyprus. He was 78.
Barnard suffered a fatal asthma attack in the morning after swimming at a coastal resort in Paphos where he was vacationing, according to a statement from the Christiaan Barnard Foundation.
Barnard's early transplant attempts met limited success. His first heart transplant patient, Louis Was...
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