The operation that took medicine into the media age, BBC, Dr Ayesha Nathoo (Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter), 3 December 2017. The photo caption incorrectly states Louis Washkansky was the first heart transplant recipient, when in actuality he was second. Boyd Rush with physician James D. Hardy was the first person to receive a heart transplant in 1964.
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"A tale of two hearts", Postgrad Medical Journal, 27 July 2016. "... HHT [Heterotopic Heart Transplantation] involves transplanting the donor heart without removing the recipient heart, effectively forming a 'double heart'. It was widely used in the pre-cyclosporine era when the donor was not strong enough (eg, the recipient had a much larger body) or the recipient had pre-existing pulmonary hypertension. Christiaan Barnard performed the first HHT ('piggy back' transplant) in 1974 ..."
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Haerens, Margaret (26 de setembro de 2012). Organ Donation (em inglês). [S.l.]: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Kuhse, Helga; Singer, Peter (16 de abril de 2013). A Companion to Bioethics (em inglês). [S.l.]: John Wiley & Sons
Ethics of Scientific Research, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Rowman & Littlefield, 1994, page 38. Along a similar line, this author states, "Barnard's failure to tell Washkansky's wife that her husband was dying," although it's not clear whether this was pre- or post-transplant.
Every Second Counts, McRae, page 189, "Coert Venter . . [and] Bertie Bosman . . withdrew, stressing that he should take as long as he needed to consider their request. They would understand if he declined to give his consent." Edward Darvall took four minutes to reach his decision, mainly thinking about his daughter, including how she tried to help others. He then told the doctors, "If you can't save my daughter, you must try and save this man."
Organ Donation, GlobalViewpoints, Margaret Haerens editor, Detroit, New York, San Francisco, New Haven, Conn., Waterville, Maine, U.S.A; London, England, UK: Greenhaven Press, 2013.
Every Second Counts, McRae, see page 207 and, regarding publicity in the Soviet Union, pages 208–09 in which Pravda states, "in spite of South Africa's backward place in the community of nations, positive, creative forces seem to thrive there, as proven by the immense feat of Dr. Chris Barnard."
1967: First Heart Transplant Patient Goes Under the Knife, Haaretz, This Day in Jewish History, David B. Green, 3 December 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 . . "
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Barnard, C.N.; Wolpowitz, A.; Losman, J.G. (1 de dezembro de 1977). «Heterotopic cardiac transplantation with a xenograft for assistance of the left heart in cardiogenic shock after cardiopulmonary bypass». South African Medical Journal. 52 (26): 1035–1038. PMID416502. hdl:10520/AJA20785135_18333
Barnard, C.N.; Wolpowitz, A.; Losman, J.G. (1 de dezembro de 1977). «Heterotopic cardiac transplantation with a xenograft for assistance of the left heart in cardiogenic shock after cardiopulmonary bypass». South African Medical Journal. 52 (26): 1035–1038. PMID416502. hdl:10520/AJA20785135_18333