Barnard: interim report of a human cardiac transplant

What changed

A human cardiac transplantation procedure was performed and publicly reported.

Scientific scope

Sole-authored interim report of a multidisciplinary operation; no durable-survival claim or sole personal credit for the team.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. 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.

Contributors

• Christiaan N. Barnard · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Barnard, A Human Cardiac Transplant: An Interim Report

Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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