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Barnard's early transplant attempts met limited success. His first heart transplant patient, Louis Washkansky, lived 18 days, though his second, Dr. Philip Blaiberg, lived more than 19 months. Soon, surgeons elsewhere were trying the experimental operation, but initially with little success. Other doctors had been preparing to perform a human heart transplant when Barnard, then 45, shocked the world on Dec. 3, 1967, by removing a patient's dying heart and replacing it with a healthy one taken from an accident victim at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. On Jan. 2, 1968, Barnard caused a sensation in South Africa by transplanting the heart of a young man of mixed race in to a retired white dentist, Philip Blaiberg. He survived for 19 months and 15 days, in part because Barnard's team had reduced the amount of anti- rejection drugs

Robert Tools, the first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart, has shown such improvement since the July 2 implant that he has been moved from an intensive care unit to..

Other doctors had been preparing to perform a human heart transplant when Barnard, then 45, shocked the world on Dec. 3, 1967, by removing a patient's dying heart and replacing it with a healthy one taken from an accident victim at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Barnard arrived in Minneapolis just as the field of open heart surgery was developing, spurred by the new technologies that produced equipment like heart-lung machines. After being invited to lend a hand with the device one day, Barnard took further training at the Medical College of Virginia to become a heart surgeon in South Africa. Photo: Mike Hutchings, Reuters; Pioneering South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard died in Cyprus Sunday while on vacation. Barnard was 78.; Photo: The Associated Press File Photo; Princess Grace of Monaco has dinner in Monte Carlo with Barnard, who had become an international celebrity, in this 1968 file photo

[Christiaan Barnard]'s early transplant attempts met limited success. His first heart transplant patient, Louis Washkansky, lived 18 days, though his second, Philip Blaiberg, lived more than 19 months. Soon, surgeons elsewhere were trying the experimental operation, but initially with little success. Other doctors had been preparing to perform a transplant when Barnard, then 45, shocked the world on Dec. 3, 1967, by removing a patient's dying heart and replacing it with a healthy one taken from an accident victim during surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. To some experts, perhaps Barnard's most important medical contribution was his courage to proceed with a human heart transplant at a time when other surgeons who had performed the operation only on animals continued to hesitate to proceed on humans

Barnard's early transplant attempts met limited success. His first heart transplant patient, Louis Washkansky, lived 18 days, though his second, retired dentist Dr. Philip Blaiberg, lived more than 19 months. Other doctors had been preparing to perform a human heart transplant when Barnard, then 45, shocked the world on Dec. 3, 1967, by removing a patient's dying heart and replacing it with a healthy one taken from an accident victim at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo: AP / Dr. [Christiaan Neethling Barnard] dines with Princess Grace of Monaco in Monte Carlo, Monaco, in August 1968. The handsome, charismatic surgeon enjoyed a playboy existence. ; Photo: AP / In later years, arthritis forced Barnard to quit active surgery in 1983. ;

Barnard's early transplant attempts met limited success. His first heart transplant patient, Louis Washkansky, lived 18 days, though his second, Philip Blaiberg, lived more than 19 months. Soon, surgeons elsewhere were trying the experimental operation, but initially with little success. Other doctors had been preparing to perform a human heart transplant when Barnard, then 45, removed a patient's dying heart and replaced it with a healthy one taken from an accident victim at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Barnard continued operating until 1983 when his once nimble fingers became gnarled by rheumatoid arthritis. Barnard turned to writing, producing an autobiography and several novels that were reviewed politely, though his literary skill never drew the attention his surgical skills attracted

Dr. Barnard's first heart transplant patient, Louis Washkansky, lived only 18 days, though his second, Dr. Philip Blaiberg, lived more than 19 months. A medical circus followed as surgeons elsewhere tried the experimental operation with little success. Dr. Barnard arrived in Minneapolis just as the field of open heart surgery was developing, spurred by the new technologies that produced such equipment as heart-lung machines. After being invited to lend a hand with the device one day, Dr. Barnard decided to take further training at the Medical College of Virginia to become a heart surgeon in South Africa. On Jan. 2, 1968, Dr. Barnard caused a sensation in South Africa by transplanting the heart of a young man of mixed race into a retired white dentist, Philip Blaiberg. He survived for 19 months and 15 days, in part because Dr. Barnard's team had reduced the amount of antirejection drugs

Other doctors had been preparing to perform a human-heart transplant when [CHRISTIAAN BARNARD], then 45, shocked the world Dec. 3, 1967, by removing a patient's dying heart and replacing it with a healthy one taken from an accident victim at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa