Louis Joshua Washkansky (12 April 1912 – 21 December 1967) was a South African man who was the recipient of the world's first human-to-human heart transplant...

heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of 54-year-old Louis Washkansky who regained full consciousness and was able to talk easily with his...

University of Cape Town-educated surgeon Christiaan Barnard on the patient Louis Washkansky. The museum opened on December 3, 2007, marking the 40th anniversary...

University of Cape Town-educated surgeon Christiaan Barnard on the patient Louis Washkansky. Groote Schuur is the chief academic hospital of the University of...

Patient Louis Washkansky received this transplant on December 3, 1967, at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Washkansky, however...

recipient of the first heart transplant, which was taken from a chimpanzee Louis Washkansky, 1967 recipient of the first human heart transplant David Bennett Sr...

explained that there was a man in the hospital they might be able to help (Louis Washkansky), and asked Edward if he would consider allowing them to transplant...

Shumway and Richard Lower. Barnard performed the first transplant on Louis Washkansky on 3 December 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. Adrian Kantrowitz...

first human-to-human heart transplant on December 3, 1967. The patient Louis Washkansky did regain consciousness, and lived for 18 days before dying of pneumonia...

the deceased Denise Darvall, who was white, for transplantation into Louis Washkansky by Barnard. Between 14 July 2005 and 3 September 2005, the five aforementioned...