The Heterotopic Hearts
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Title
The Heterotopic Hearts
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Pathology
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Human Biology
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Biological Sciences
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Description
“On two occasions in 1977, when a patient’s left ventricle failed acutely after routine open-heart surgery and when no human donor organ was available, Barnard transplanted an animal heart heterotopically. On the first occasion, a baboon heart was transplanted, but this failed to support the circulation sufficiently, the patient dying some six hours after transplantation. In the second patient, a chimpanzee heart successfully maintained life until irreversible rejection occurred four days later, the recipient’s native heart having failed to recover during this period. Further attempts at xenotransplantation were abandoned and even now, more than 30 years later, xenotransplantation remains an elusive holy grail despite decades of research.”
Extract: Brink JG, Hassoulas J. The first human heart transplant and further advances in cardiac transplantation at Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town. Cardiovasc J Afr. 2009; 20(1):31-5
Extract: Brink JG, Hassoulas J. The first human heart transplant and further advances in cardiac transplantation at Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town. Cardiovasc J Afr. 2009; 20(1):31-5
Curriculum
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
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Creator
Chris Barnard
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Date Created
1977
Resonances
Pathology Learning Centre
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Jane Yeats
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Chris Barnard
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heart transplant
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animals
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circulation
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failure
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medicine chest
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Type
Specimen
Contributor
Nina Liebenberg
