6 знаменитых врачей, изменивших кардиологию | Знания о сердце | Дзен
#1 heart surgeon - among 6 top input makers among heart surgeons are 2 Libras and 2 Scorpios.
Adrian Kontrovic Libra, Clarence Walton - Libra, Christian Barnard and Magdi Yakub - Scorpios.
Adrian Kantrowitz performed the world's first heart transplant on a child in 1967.
One of the founding fathers of cardiac surgery, who was able to prove the possibility of open-heart surgery. On March 25, 1954, he performed the world's first operation for a ventricular septal defect under conditions of cross-circulation.
This British cardiac surgeon of Egyptian origin holds at least two world records. Firstly, he has performed more heart transplants than any other cardiac surgeon on the planet. Secondly, it was he who transplanted a donor heart to 40-year-old John McCafferty in October 1982, who lived with it for 33 years, that is, this is the longest-lived transplanted heart in the world.
In 1995, he performed a complex operation on two-year-old Hannah Clark: her heart muscle practically did not work, and a few months later, doctors transplanted a donor heart to the baby without removing her own. The girl was saved from death, and for 10 years she lived with two hearts, taking immunosuppressants, which led to cancer and rejection of the donor organ. Then the doctors took up the scalpel again in order to remove the transplant, and a miracle happened: they saw that Hannah's own heart was completely restored. This was Jakub's strategy, from the very beginning he decided to keep Hannah's own heart, but give it a break by implanting a second one - a donor one:
South African surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant. Barnard made history in cardiology in 1967 when he transplanted the heart of 25-year-old Denise Darval, who had died in a car accident the day before, to 54-year-old Louis Washkansky, who suffered from an incurable heart condition. The recipient lived only 18 days and died of double pneumonia, because the huge number of drugs that suppress the immune system and prevent rejection of the new heart weakened his body so much that he could not cope with the infection. But this operation made Barnard famous and inspired cardiac surgeons to perform such operations around the world.
