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 ...

53-year old Louis Washkansky. The procedure, performed by a medical team of 30, lasted six hours. Washkansky died 18 days ...