Louis Washkansky

Louis Washkansky (født 1913, død 21. december 1967) var den første mand der overlevede at få foretaget en hjertetransplantation,[1][2] gennemført af den sydafrikanske læge Christiaan Barnard og et hold på 30 personer på Groote Schuur Hospital i Cape Town, Sydafrika, 3. december 1967.[3][4][5]

Louis Washkansky, der var fra Sydafrika, 55 år og diabetiker, levede med sit nye hjerte i 18 døgn, hvor han blandt andet talte med sin kone og med journalister,[6][7][8] hvorefter han døde af lungebetændelse.[9]

Referencer
  1. Heart Transplantation in Man: Developmental Studies and Report of a Case, JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), James D. Hardy, MD; Carlos M. Chavez, MD; Fred D. Kurrus, MD; William A. Neely, MD; Sadan Eraslan, MD; M. Don Turner, PhD; Leonard W. Fabian, MD; Thaddeus D. Labecki, MD; 188(13): 1132-1140; June 29, 1964.
  2. Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart, Donald McRae, Chapter 7 "Mississippi Gambling," Penguin Group (G.P. Putnam's Sons), 2006, pages bottom 122 through 127.
  3. Every Second Counts, McRae, 2006, pages 191-96.
  4. 1967: First Heart Transplant Patient Goes Under the Knife, Haaretz, This Day in Jewish History, David B. Green, 3.12.2013. " . . When he was 9, his mother took him [Louis Washkansky] and his three siblings to Cape Town, to join their father, who had come ahead of the family . . "
  5. Christiaan Neethling Barnard, South African History Online, updated 11 Jan 2017.
  6. 1967 Year In Review
  7. S Afr Med J, "A human cardiac transplant: an interim report of a successful operation performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town", Barnard CN, 1967 Dec 30; 41(48): 1271–74.
  8. Louis Washkansky (1913 – 1967) Arkiveret 4. april 2017 hos Wayback Machine, Science Museum. Louis was born in Lithuania in 1913 and moved to South Africa in 1922.
  9. "Pneumonia Blamed in Transplant Patient's Death". The New York Times. 1967-12-21. Hentet 2011-01-11.
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