53-year old Louis Washkansky. The procedure, performed by a medical team of 30, lasted six hours. Washkansky died 18 days ...
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Can a heart transplant carry the memories of donors? All you need to know about 'cellular memories'Over 37 years ago, when Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant surgery on Louis Washkansky, a 53-year-old South African grocer with chronic heart disease, science lit up a way ...
Barnard had a patient, 55-year-old Louis Washkansky, who had diabetes and incurable heart disease. Washkansky could either wait for certain death or risk transplant surgery with an 80 percent ...
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