First heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard (1967)

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf historical medical event
gptkbp:city gptkb:Cape_Town
gptkbp:country gptkb:South_Africa
gptkbp:date 1967-12-03
gptkbp:field cardiac surgery
gptkbp:followedBy subsequent human heart transplants worldwide
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label First heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard (1967)
gptkbp:location gptkb:Groote_Schuur_Hospital
gptkbp:notableDonation gptkb:Denise_Darvall
gptkbp:performedBy gptkb:Christiaan_Barnard
gptkbp:precededBy animal heart transplants
gptkbp:recipient gptkb:Louis_Washkansky
gptkbp:result recipient survived 18 days
gptkbp:significance first successful human-to-human heart transplant
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Cape_Town,_South_Africa
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5