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Reported the December 1967 transplantation of a cadaveric human heart into a patient with end-stage cardiac disease and described the operative approach and early course.
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The exact target paper is sole-authored, but the operation was a multidisciplinary team achievement built on extensive prior transplantation research. This record does not assign the entire operation to the paper author or claim durable survival.
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Christiaan N. Barnard
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Barnard: interim report of a human cardiac transplant
Reported the December 1967 transplantation of a cadaveric human heart into a patient with end-stage cardiac disease and described the operative approach and early course.
Scientific scope
The exact target paper is sole-authored, but the operation was a multidisciplinary team achievement built on extensive prior transplantation research. This record does not assign the entire operation to the paper author or claim durable survival.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Christiaan N. Barnard
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.