When and where was the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation performed?
In December 1967, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa , a surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation.
It was 53-year-old Louis Washkansky who received the first human heart transplant from Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old woman, fatally injured in a car accident.
Washkansky’s new heart functioned normally, but 18 days after the revolutionary medical operation the man died from double pneumonia as the drugs that were given to him to suppress his immune system and keep his body from rejecting the heart left him more susceptible to sickness.
In the 1970s, the development of better anti-rejection drugs made transplantation more viable. Dr. Barnard continued to operate, and many of his patients were living up to five years with their new hearts.
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